update: i solved my problem and change this story to reflect the new situation, maybe someone finds it helpful:

i had written:

what i'm trying to do is to get antville from an antclick installation over to another hop wich runs with apache and McKoi at the moment; ...

well, that's what i _thought_. actually, there was no McKoi. I had copied over the data directory and the ~/db/antville directory and changed the obvious settings in ~/apps/antville/app.properties and ~/apps.properties, but there was no mckoi.jar in the lib dir, let alone an entry in the "%JARS"" variable in hop.bat. once i fixed that, it worked (i still have to fix some paths in the config files, but i'm pretty sure that'll be it).

it was all my fault, because didn't realize that while helma comes with demo applications that need a db, it doesn't come with a db.

now all i need is a howto on getting my antville data out of mckoi and into an oracle db. and, of course, on setting up that db (table definitions...). is something like lying around somewhere?

here is a screen shot of the antville start page. i was told about such an occurrence before (at that time it was another weblog that was listed twice) and later could witness it myself: