Reports problem in web environment

Hi Friends,
We have developed the application using developer/2000 and web
enabled the same. The problem is reports are not working in web.
We are using run product to call the reports. I.e. reports are
called from forms using the run product. The following error is
displayed when ever we try running the reports from forms
using Netscape 4.06 browser. But If we call forms from forms
using run product , it is working fine.
Similar installtion is workig in our test environment.
Err:frm:40733 - PL/SQL Built-in RUN-PRODUCT Failed.
Hardware Environment:
Application server : Pentium /128 MB RAM / 20 GB Hard Disk
Application Clients : Pentium 233 MX, 32 MB RAM, 1.44 MB floppy
drive and 2.1 GB HDD.
Software Environment:
Operating system :
MS Windows NT server 4.0 ( Server)
MS Windows 95 Clients
Application Platform :
Oracle Enterprise server 8.0.4
Oracle developer/2000 Release 2.1 for Windows NT and Windows 95
Oracle Developer/2000 Server for Windows NT Release 2.1 ( Only
forms server is installed )
Oracle Jinitiator 1.1.5.21.1
Netscape Navigator 4.0.6
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Hi Shahmayur,
I too am facing the same problem. If your problem is cleared then please let me know, so that i can continue the work.
Rgds
Bhaskar

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