Help and New Updates No Longer Work

I can no longer access Help, it just doesn't do anything and doesn't
make a log entry. When I try running the New Updates I get an error
"Exception Occured Starting Application Server". The following is from
the log when I tried to run New Updates.



Any help would be appreciated on how to fix these issues. Version
WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition for iSeries
Version: 5.1.2.6 Build id: 20051002_2139


Tx



Chris

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!SESSION Nov  08, 2005 08:27:07.37
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java.fullversion=J2RE 1.3.1 IBM J9 build 20031201 (JIT enabled)

BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US

Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86
Files\IBM\WebSphere Studio\Application
Developer\v5.1\.\eclipse\eclipse.exe -data C:\WDSCWorkspace -feature
com.ibm.wdsclientadv -install file:C:/Program Files/IBM/WebSphere
Studio/Application Developer/v5.1/eclipse/

!ENTRY org.eclipse.help.appserver 4 0 Nov 08, 2005 08:27:07.37

!MESSAGE Exception occurred starting application server.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 4 Nov 08, 2005 08:27:07.57

!MESSAGE Unhandled exception caught in event loop.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 Nov 08, 2005 08:27:07.57

!MESSAGE java.lang.NullPointerException

!STACK 0

java.lang.NullPointerException

            at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java)

            at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java)

            at 
java.lang.NullPointerException.<init>(NullPointerException.java:63)

            at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.search.SearchObject.<init>(SearchObject.java:69)

            at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.search.DefaultUpdatesSearchObject.<init>(DefaultUpdatesSearchObject.java:21)

            at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.NewUpdatesAction.initialize(NewUpdatesAction.java:45)

            at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.NewUpdatesAction.doRun(NewUpdatesAction.java:66)

            at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.NewUpdatesAction.access$0(NewUpdatesAction.java:65)

            at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.NewUpdatesAction$1.run(NewUpdatesAction.java:60)

            at 
org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:69)

            at 
org.eclipse.update.internal.ui.NewUpdatesAction.run(NewUpdatesAction.java:58)

            at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:251)

            at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WWinPluginAction.runWithEvent(WWinPluginAction.java:207)

            at 
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:456)

            at 
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:403)

            at 
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$0(ActionContributionItem.java:397)

            at 
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$ActionListener.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:72)

            at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java)

            at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:840)

            at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java)

            at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java)

            at 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1402)

            at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.run(Workbench.java:1385)

            at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:858)

            at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:461)

            at 
java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.invokeL(AccessibleObject.java:207)

            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:271)

            at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:291)

            at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:747)

            at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:583)