If you are like me, you do your portal development on Vista or Windows 2008 server. Up until the other day whenever I wanted to have the search (queryd.exe) running, I always had to run it from an administrative command line since the service always failed to start when running under the "Local System" account. So by chance I decided to try assigning a local administator account to the search service and would you believe that the service started? Now I'm not saying that you have to run it under an administrator account, I would probably suggest testing out to see if any lower level permissions...

So I recently encountered an error message I hadn't previously seen while developing with the IDK:

With the release of ALUI 6.5 there are some of us who need to do core customizations that cannot be done using class overriding.  For those moments (and I suggest you keep them as limited as possible) you need to have the v6.5 UICI in a state that not only compiles properly, but will allow you to make non-breaking changes once deployed.  Since BEA is currently not providing a completed solution (though I have been told that they should be "soon"), here are the steps I took to get my environment up and running.