I'm trying to run NetBeans 5.5 for a project I'm working on. However, the IDE refuses to launch, repeatedly telling me I must specify the userdir with the --userdir parameter.

I've tried setting the netbeans_userdir variable to a few different values in the netbeans.conf file and still the IDE will not launch.

This is on a WinXP SP2 system with JDK 1.6.0.

I appreciate any insight you can offer.