This is the package I currently love to hate. I really need to get it to work fully, and it's just NOT cooperating. I've got two problems. I'll accept help on either one, but I think you'll be able to tell which is more important. I'm running an up-to-date breezy amd-64. 1) HELP! I need to use base. I also need to be able to use several of the other JAVA ONLY functions, so I really need to get this going. I am running breezy. I started with Colony 4, and have upgraded at every opportunity. I have the Blackdown 1.4.2 installed. I also have gij installed. OOo sortof recognizes Blackdown. When I start OOo, javadlx starts running Java, and Java takes about 1.2 Gb of virtual memory. Eventually (10-15 seconds) this ends, and OOo, starts up. But, if I try to use any of the Java functionality, I can't. So, I looked in Tools -> Options -> Java. It's marked to use the installed JRE, but there is nothing listed for about 30 seconds. The screen even freezes up. Other programs seem relatively unaffected. I can use the Java functionality but it is . . . s . . . . l . . . . o . . . . .w . . . . I started base and then tried to use the wizard. It took almost 20 seconds to get the wizard started. This machine is clocked @ 2 Ghz. No way do I believe that takes that long! I doesn't on my old crappy 32 bit laptop with the same version of Java! How can I make this run accpetably? Can I switch it to using the gij? If so, how? A friend has the 32-bit breezy installed and her's uses gij, but I can't get mine to recogniz it. Her computer's stuff is running very well. 2) I just got upgraded to 1.129, and now OOo isn't using the GNOME theme anymore. I logged out and back in. No change. This is hardly the end of the world, but it was a rather odd regression. --andy