Thanks again John, and Stephen.

In the end I rewrote the java command to point to 1.6.0 instead of 1.4.2. 

One thing that wrongfooted me is that 1.4.2 is in /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.4.2..... 
but 1.6.0 is in /usr/java/

I'll keep the salt standing by. 

NDI

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