Brandon, I saw your last push with great anticipation. However, after building ND I get this error when the program loads. When I press enter on the OK button, ND closes with an error in the console window. And, oh yes, I tried deleting my classes folder and building again. --------------------------- --------------------------- An error occurred while reading the document. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- In the console window, I see: c:\newdesign\dist>java -jar brailleblaster.jar java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\newdesign\dist\programData\xmlTemplates\dtbook.xml (The system cannot find the path specified) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity( Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersi on(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source) at org.brailleblaster.document.Normalizer.<init>(Normalizer.java:47) at org.brailleblaster.document.BBDocument.normalizeFile(BBDocument.java:211) at org.brailleblaster.document.BBDocument.setupFromFile(BBDocument.java:142) at org.brailleblaster.document.BBDocument.startDocument(BBDocument.java:120) at org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.DocumentManager.initializeAllViews(Document Manager.java:289) at org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.DocumentManager.<init>(DocumentManager.java :131) at org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.WPManager.<init>(WPManager.java:93) at org.brailleblaster.Main.main(Main.java:55) The Document Base document tree is empty Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.brailleblaster.document.BBDocument.query(BBDocument.java:850) at org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.DocumentManager.<init>(DocumentManager.java :132) at org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.WPManager.<init>(WPManager.java:93) at org.brailleblaster.Main.main(Main.java:55) Best regards from Ohio, Vic