L.S., I've had problems installing Pluto 2.0 on the Tomcat 6.0.13 (which is supported according to the documentation on the Pluto site). The main problem was a matter of running the installable version of Tomcat 6.0.13 (the .exe file). This was a huge mistake. Problems attempting to run Pluto on Tomcat 6.0.13 (installable version) were that the JSR 286 and JSR 168 portlets from the testsuite were unable to load. The portlets included with Pluto 2.0 (Admin and About Pluto) did run, though. Tricky thing seemed to be that the classes constituting the portal could not be found.
Removing the installation and using the .zip version was the trick to put all to rights. (One minor thing on first start-up: Pluto complained about missing commons logging classes, so I added the .jar files to the lib folder to remedy that problem.) Seeing that the .zip version removed that problem, I'll put the problem down to a Tomcat issue. During my attempts to get it running on Tomcat 6.0.13 I was told by Torsten that running it with a Java 6 JVM wouldn't quite work. Rgds, Erik