Finally made some headway getting Android to run on my laptop. My guess (?) is that over time there were some Eclipse related items lurking in the registry, so I bit the bullet and reloaded Windows XP. Lots of stuff gone but lots o junk gone too. So with a clean slate I did the following;
1) Downloaded the Java SDK (with the javac compiler)
2) Tested that installation was ok by opening command window and typing: java -version
    result was version 1.5 so all is ok.
3) Downloaded Eclipse from ecl...
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