OK.  I found dom4j.  My class path now has the following JAR files:
        poi-3.6-20091214.jar
        poi-ooxml-3.6-20091214.jar
        poi-ooxml-schemas-3.6-20091214.jar
        xbean.jar
        dom4j-1.6.1\dom4j-1.6.1.jar

When I write my class as a JFrame, and run it as an application it works 
fine!  It can open an XLSM file and look at the sheets.

When I write my class as a JApplet, and try to run the class file using 
the appletview or IE7, it fails just like before:
        java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFWorkbook

When I put my JApplet class in a JAR file with the five JAR files noted 
above, and try to run it in the appletview or IE7, it fails just like 
before:
        java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFWorkbook

I tried it on a PC running the follwoing combinations:
        - IE7 and Java1.6
        - IE6 and Java1.5
But I can not get IE to see the other JAR files.

So my code works as an application, now I need to figure out what I'm 
doing wrong in creating the applet.

The MANIFEST.MF looks like this:
        Manifest-Version: 1.0
        Created-By: 1.6.0_21 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
        Class-Path: poi-3.6-20091214.jar poi-ooxml-3.6-20091214.jar 
poi-ooxml-schemas-3.6-20091214.jar xbean.jar dom4j-1.6.1.jar

Am I forgetting something?  Can anyone offer any insight into why I can't 
access POI from an applet?

Thomas

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