ADF Faces skins problems using libraries

Hi,
I have been trying to use the tutorial on the following website:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/101/howtos/adfskins/index.html
This shows you how to create skins and things. The only problem is that I cannot see the view that is shown in the screenshot. I.e. I get a load of garbled gabage showing me the tags in the document instead of whats visually there.
I realise this is a problem with the library but everytime I try and set up the JSF and ADF libraries in the JSP Tag libraries of Tools->Manage Libraries I click the Execute Tags in JSP Visual Editor it lets me do it but then I click refresh on the window with sample.jspx in it and JDeveloper just dies.
The libraries I am using I have downloaded and followed the instructions on
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/howtos/10g/jsf_howto/jsf.html
To do the JSF libraries and I have followed the same instructions for the ADF libraries. If anyone has any idea I would be glad of the help
Cheers
Daniel

I tried the same example and it is working fine with me. May I know the JDeveloper version you are using?

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Unfortunally your suggestion didn't work. I did however discover that the exception is only thrown if one uses ADF faces components. There is no error message if reference implementation components are used (even if using the ADF faces renderer class).
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