Tomcat5 not loading

I am trying to get tomcat loading so that I can fix a GroupWise Webaccess
problem. The tomcat log reads in part something like the following:

2007-11-13 09:56:00,542 [main] ERROR org.apache.commons.digester.Digester -
Parse Fatal Error at line 120 column 9: The string "--" is not permitted
within comments.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is not permitted within
comments.
at
org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createS AXParseException(Unknown
Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalEr ror(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportErro r(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportErro r(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError (Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unkn own Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerI mpl.scanComment(Unknown
Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerI mpl$FragmentContentDispatc
her.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerI mpl.scanDocument(Unknown
Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse (Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse (Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse( Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digeste r.java:1647)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina .java:489)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina .java:528)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Native MethodAccessorImpl.java:64
)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl
..java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:615)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstr ap.java:250)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstr ap.java:424)
Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The
string "--" is not permitted within comments.

The server is OES2 (Sles10 sp1) updated as of this morning. Can anyone point
me in the proper direction to get this fixed?

Daniel Wells, AIA
MHTN Architects, Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah