Classpath and "ghost" libraries

Greetings,
I just did a fresh install of J2EE and NWDS stack 13. Before doing so, I deinstalled all previous versions.
Now, when I rebuild a Web Dynpro project that has always worked, I get the task messages: "The project was not built due to classpath errors (incomplete or involved in cycle)" and "Missing required library: 'C:SAP_J2EEngine6.20/cluster/server/additional-Lib/activation.jar'". Dozens of similar missing library messages also show up.
Stangely enough, a 'Deploy new archive and Run' on the application works just fine. Also, I can deploy the new archive to my local EP 6.0 portal and it works fine.
The above directory "SAP_J2EEngine6.20" no longer exists, of course, so it's no surprise that it cannot find it.
What puzzles me is why it is looking for it. I had previously set up a Linked Resource in NWDS but even after removing it, there was no difference.
Another interesting tidbit; my Windows XP CLASSPATH environment variables (both system and process) = ".;"
I've looked all through the project properties for references to explicitly included additional libraries and found none that match the culprits.
I've even created a new Web Dynpro project from scratch and it gets the same messages. (and works anyway)
Any ideas about how to get rid of these messages would be welcome.
Thanks for your help,
Ken Henderson

Hi Ken,
vm.parameters seems to contain values pertaining only to virtual memory settings.
I searched everything under the usr tree for a filename or content that included "Engine6.20" and found nothing. I then searched under the eclipse tree and found nothing.
Thanks for your ideas; I'm still listening.
Ken

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I am trying to share my itunes and iphoto libraries with other users on my powerbook, but I seem to have problems with it.
What is the best way to do it?
Place an alias in my "shared" folder and access this with the applications from the different accounts ? This seems to workt for the itunes library, at least... Or do I have to mess with the righs managent ?
I dont want screw up my nice mac...
Thanx for the help in advance.
Herman
PB G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi... and thanx for your help...
I did not think that I would have to mess with my firewall, as long as I am talking of useres on the same computer, but I guess I was wrong.
Your advice helps very much, but only as long as I am still logged in with my user name. I does not work when only my kids are logged in. There has to be a way to use these libraries without the need to log in the user that has created those folders...
Hmmm
Thanx for your help
Herman
PB G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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