Running Tomcat 5.0.27-beta for the first time

I followed all the previous steps and trippled checked to make sure what I had sone was correct. First would like to state that servlet.jar appears to have been renamed servlet-api.jar, please correct me if I am wrong. When I go to run Tomcat by double-clicking on startup.bat file a dos screen appears for a second then it goes off. I then attempt to open http://localhost:8080 and the page could not be displayed. I am trying to do this on MS server 2000, is that the reason?

You are right about the servlet.jar having been renamed to servlet-api.jar. I have actually just now updated the tutorial for JSP 2.1 spec and Tomcat 6.0.14. One possibility that comes to mind regarding your problem may be the JDK. Please make sure you have Java Development Kit 1.6 installed on your system. Then make sure that JAVA_HOME system environment variable should be set to the folder containing the installed JDK 1.6 as explained in the tutorial. And then try again.