Netbeans is being used by some of my lucky Linux using co-workers.  It will not 
start on my windows NT platform.  I've tried starting it with each of the 
downloads, from the start menu, bash and nt shell.  The following is a paste of 
what I get each time:
-- System info ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Product Version       = NetBeans IDE 3.2 (Build 39)
  IDE Versioning        = IDE/1 spec=1.2.1 impl=39
  Operating System      = Windows NT version 4.0 running on x86
  Java; VM; Vendor      = 1.3.0; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.3.0-C; Sun 
Microsystems Inc.
  Java Home             = C:\jdk1.3\jre
  System Locale         = en_US
  Home Dir; Current Dir = C:\WINNT\Profiles\kingjd; d:\netbeans\lib
  IDE Install; User Dir = d:\netbeans; s:\jeff\netbeans
  CLASSPATH             = 
d:\netbeans\lib\patches\openide-compat.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\core.jar;d:\netbeans\
lib\openide-fs.jar;d:\netb
eans\lib\openide-nodes.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\openide-util.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\open
ide.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\ext\jaxp.jar;d:\netbeans\lib
\ext\jh.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\ext\jpython.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\ext\parser.jar;d:\ne
tbeans\lib\ext\regexp.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\ext\rmi-ex
t.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\ext\sax2.jar;d:\netbeans\lib\ext\servlet.jar;d:\netbeans\l
ib\ext\xerces.jar;C:\jdk1.3\lib\dt.jar;C:\jdk1.3\lib
\tools.jar
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
        at org.openide.xml.XMLUtil.createXMLReader(XMLUtil.java:75)
        at org.openide.xml.XMLUtil.createXMLReader(XMLUtil.java:43)
        at org.openide.loaders.XMLDataObject.<clinit>(XMLDataObject.java:1092)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbTheme.parseTheme(NbTheme.java:110)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbTheme.<init>(NbTheme.java:90)
        at org.netbeans.core.Main.run(Main.java:114)
        at org.openide.TopManager.initializeTopManager(TopManager.java:120)
        at org.openide.TopManager.getDefault(TopManager.java:81)
        at org.netbeans.core.Main.main(Main.java:274)
        at org.netbeans.core.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:90)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

I found the offending class in openide.jar, but could not see if this method was 
indeed missing.