Problems Using Serializable Metadata after Loading Validation Layer

[Michael Starch]

All,

I am getting a NullPointerException deep in the XML library if I try to use
the SerializableMetadata's write to xml function after I load in the XML
Validation Layer from the filemanager. However, if I remove the call to
load in the XML Validation Layer, everything works fine.  Any ideas as to
what might cause this issue?

Thanks,

Michael