OWB workflow process job error

Hi, I tried the sample in OBE for OWB. When I start to execute "LOAD_EXPESNE_WH" process, I got the following log file(see below).
The job ended in error, but I don't know further information where the error is happening. Can you explain what the error might be or where I might look for more clues?
Thank you very much,
Execution : LOAD_EXPENSE_WH
Runtime User : REP_OWNER
Started : 2007-03-06 12:59:55.0
Updated : 2007-03-06 13:00:08.0
Job Final Status : Completed with errors
Job Error Count : 0
Job Warning Count : 0

Thanks for the help. I don't find a log directory under rtp at server side. However, I logged in Repository browser( is this the OWB runtime Auit browser you referred to?), found some error messages.
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout ORA-29400: data cartridge error KUP-04040: file expense_categories.csv in SOURCE_LOCATION not found
Now I need to explain my setup. I'm running Design Center(DC) on a client machine while Oracle database is running on a seperate server machine. The flat source files are located on the client machine c:\newowbdemo\sourcefiles. SOURCE_LOCATION has been defined to c:\newowbdemo\sourcefiles where the flat files reside. So it looks like Oracle ETL can not find the files on the client machine.
So I just created identical directories as c:\newowbdemo\sourcefiles on server machine, rerun ETL process, and it now completes successfully.
This begs two questions.
1. Is DC supposed to be running on server machine?
2. Can DC use UNC name convention?
Please give me your thoughts.
Thanks,

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4) I restarted OWB, opened the mapping, chose to generate the code, and compared the generation result with the package code in the database. This resulted in the difference mentioned in my original mail.
5) I deployed (replace) the mapping once more, and verified the code in the database. This time the code was complete (no missing column).
Regards,
Kurt

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