Thanks for your reply.
That answers most of my questions.
I do, however, have one last issue and it is the most critical. I described the problem in the posting below. I have tried to load the bootstrap file from multiple machines running windows xp and I get an error that it fails to find the file (the bootstrap.xml file). What can I do to load the bootstrap file? Is there a way to manually load the file. It appears that this is an issue with the way that the file, and directory are being being selected; the path isn't found.