: issue resolve. problem was that solr.war was silently not being overwritten : by new version. : : will try to spend more time debugging before posting.
Glad you were able to figure it out. For future refrence: problems like these are pretty much impossible for people to help you with unless you post the full stack trace so we can see the line numbers where the error is occuring (not just the line number of the error, but every line number of every method call leading up to the error -- those are particularly important with recursive methods like hte function parsing) -Hoss
