3] After copying files I ran the odin\system32\odininst.exe program
I don't know what it will do, I didn't run this program.
Of interest to Joop possibly: my Arachnophilia program object contains the following:-
Path and filename: J:\JAVA\OPENJDK6\BIN\JAVAW.EXE
Parameters: -jar J:\Java\Arachnophilia\Arachnophilia.jar
So, I am starting java and Arachnophilia from arbitrary locations without adding java data to Path and Libpath and without changing drive and directory to J:\Java\Arachnophilia
I did already know this because I wrote "I'm running out of options your case". In this case with Arachnophilia there are no other files and directories, so you can indead start everywhere. However as soon as you want a logfile (-jar J:\Java\Arachnophilia\Arachnophilia.jar 2>Arachnophiliabugs.txt) be sure to be in that directory otherwise that log could be saved anywhere on your system.
Thanks for all your help and patience guys.
Its good to read that its working now for you.
Regards,
Joop