yeah....i've been facing the same problem....i created an applet and it runs fine on SUN JVM.....when it comes to MICROSOFT VM, it gives the "load: class not found" error which i totally don't get it.....
no problem, just use 1.1 classes and compile with -target 1.1.however reading local files requires to sign the applet which cannot be done in a way that supports msjvm and sunjvm. thats it.lg Clemens