Just another clue: When debug is set to 1+, the Java console reports this error (among many others):
Exception in thread "thread applet-Painter.class-2" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: IllegalName: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-// W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/ xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> I am guessing this means that some HTML page is being loaded in Debug 1+ mode and not in Debug 0 mode. Perhaps some error page is being tripped when the applet is being initialized? Also not sure why I can't use Configure::write to set debug to 0 before view rendering?? That would solve my issue. These are the problems that keep it interesting... Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en