As soon as Netbeans 3.5.1 is started the error 
(from ide.log) below is raised. Does not 
startup 3.5.1 - was fine with 3.5.0.
==================ide.log======================
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>Log Session: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 
10:45:07 PM GMT+05:30
>System Info: 
  Product Version       = NetBeans IDE 3.5.1 
(Build 200307252351)
  IDE Versioning        = IDE/1 spec=3.42.2 
impl=200307252351
  Operating System      = Windows 2000 version 
5.0 running on x86
  Java; VM; Vendor      = 1.4.2; Java HotSpot
(TM) Client VM 1.4.2-b28; Sun Microsystems Inc.
  Java Home             = E:\j2sdk1.4.0\jre
  System Locale; Encod. = en_US; Cp1252
  Home Dir; Current Dir = C:\Documents and 
Settings\Sandip Mukherjee; E:\netbeans\bin
  IDE Install; User Dir = E:\netbeans; 
C:\Documents and Settings\Sandip 
Mukherjee\.netbeans\3.5
  CLASSPATH             = 
E:\netbeans\lib\ext\boot.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\ext
\crimson-
1.1.3.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\ext\crimson.jar;E:\net
beans\lib\ext\regexp-
1.2.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\ext\regexp.jar;E:\netbea
ns\lib\ext\rmi-
ext.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\ext\terminalemulator.jar
;E:\netbeans\lib\ext\xerces-
2.0.2.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\ext\xerces.jar;E:\netb
eans\lib\ext\xml-apis-
1.0b2.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\ext\xml-
apis.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0\lib\dt.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\lib\tools.jar
  Boot & ext classpath  = E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\rt.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\i18n.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\sunrsasign.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\jsse.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\jce.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\charsets.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\classes;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\ext\ldapsec.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;E:\j2sdk1.4.0
\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar
  Dynamic classpath     = 
E:\netbeans\lib\patches\openide-
compat.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\core-
compiler.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\core-
execution.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\core-
ide.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\core-
ui.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\core-
windows.jar;E:\netbeans\lib\core.jar;E:\netbeans
\lib\openide.jar
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*********** Exception occurred ************ at 
Wed Aug 06 22:45:09 GMT+05:30 2003
java.lang.VerifyError: Cannot inherit from 
final class
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0
(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass
(ClassLoader.java:537)
	at 
org.netbeans.JarClassLoader.simpleFindClass
(JarClassLoader.java:140)
	at 
org.netbeans.ProxyClassLoader.smartLoadClass
(ProxyClassLoader.java:480)
	at 
org.netbeans.ProxyClassLoader.loadClass
(ProxyClassLoader.java:144)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass
(ClassLoader.java:235)
	at 
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal
(ClassLoader.java:302)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native 
Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName
(Class.java:219)
	at 
org.openide.util.lookup.MetaInfServicesLookup.se
arch(MetaInfServicesLookup.java:173)
	at 
org.openide.util.lookup.MetaInfServicesLookup.be
foreLookup(MetaInfServicesLookup.java:78)
	at 
org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup.lookupIte
m(AbstractLookup.java:268)
	at 
org.openide.util.lookup.AbstractLookup.lookup
(AbstractLookup.java:259)
	at 
org.openide.util.lookup.ProxyLookup.lookup
(ProxyLookup.java:140)
	at 
org.openide.filesystems.ExternalUtil.initialize
(ExternalUtil.java:94)
	at 
org.openide.filesystems.ExternalUtil.getReposito
ry(ExternalUtil.java:32)
	at 
org.openide.filesystems.Repository.getDefault
(Repository.java:124)
	at org.netbeans.core.NbTheme.parseTheme
(NbTheme.java:254)
	at org.netbeans.core.NbTheme.<init>
(NbTheme.java:210)
	at org.netbeans.core.Main.run
(Main.java:123)
	at 
org.netbeans.core.NbTopManager.getNbTopManager
(NbTopManager.java:236)
	at org.netbeans.core.NbTopManager.get
(NbTopManager.java:195)
	at org.netbeans.core.Main.start
(Main.java:433)
[catch] at org.netbeans.core.TopThreadGroup.run
(TopThreadGroup.java:79)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)