I tried what you suggested and I get a new error... seems like it's looking for org/apache/commons/httpclient/params/HttpClientParams although this class is part of the delicious.jar...so it's odd that it cannot be found.
hmmm? Dorothy org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'del.icio.us.Delicious#2b1682' defined in URL [jar:file:/C:/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28/webapps/death/WEB-INF/lib/death- service.jar!/META-INF/applicationContext-service.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Could not instantiate class [del.icio.us.Delicious]; constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/httpclient/params/HttpClientParams org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Could not instantiate class [ del.icio.us.Delicious]; constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/httpclient/params/HttpClientParams java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/httpclient/params/HttpClientParams at del.icio.us.Delicious.<init>(Delicious.java:95) at del.icio.us.Delicious.<init>(Delicious.java:82)