IAS6.0 SP3 and Solaris 9

Help!
We have an install of iAS6 SP3 running on Solaris 9 and am having serious server failures. After loading anywhere between 30 and 40 jsp pages, the server "white screens", (refuses to render anything) and in the kjs logs reports an "nullpointer exception" and a failure when "writing or refreshing JSP Page url".
"Exception writing or refreshing JSP page /jsp/deployed/CreateIssuePost.jsp: java.lang.NullPointerException"
It then dies in quite a big way requiring a restart. There is no significant load on the server (1x developer), it has plenty of capacity on swap and memory, and I've set the file descriptor limit to about max (65k). There seems to be a failure between the server and the ldap server just before it all goes pear shaped with an error 91 (failure to connect) occuring.
I'm completely out of ideas and hope someone has come across this one! Any help appreciated!
Dave

Just a vague idea,
please ensure that the Object reference to any object used in the CreateIssuePost.jsp is valid and exists. If every thing is correct, please send the kjs logs.

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