diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index 2a40cea..1c8e32c 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -77,12 +77,6 @@
     <td width="87%" valign="top"><em>Identified 1.11.1</em> Process affinity may have to be set on
     dual core machines to avoid com exceptions.</td>
   </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td width="13%" valign="top">1504120 </td>
-    <td width="87%" valign="top"><em>Identified 1.11.1</em>Microsoft 2003 Server crashes.  Server crashes on MS 2003 Server have been reported over time.
-    	Some users have had say that Jacob must be built on MS2003 Server to run reliably. 
-    	The Jacob distribution on Sourceforge is built on Windows XP SP2 (No code change. Just a documentation updat)</td>
-  </tr>
 </table>
 
 <!--  ---------  -->
diff --git a/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java b/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java
index 81776e5..befe05e 100644
--- a/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java
+++ b/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java
@@ -1346,11 +1346,7 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
      * public constructor, initializes and sets type to VariantEmpty
      */
     public Variant() {
-        init();
-        putEmpty();
-        if (isDebugEnabled()) {
-            debug("Variant: " +	"create " + this );
-        }
+    	this(null,false);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1358,8 +1354,7 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
      * @param in
      */
     public Variant(int in) {
-        init();
-        putInt(in);
+    	this(new Integer(in));
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1367,8 +1362,7 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
      * @param in
      */
     public Variant(double in) {
-        init();
-        putDouble(in);
+    	this(new Double(in));
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1376,8 +1370,7 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
      * @param in
      */
     public Variant(boolean in) {
-        init();
-        putBoolean(in);
+    	this(new Boolean(in));
     }
 
     /** 
@@ -1588,48 +1581,6 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
         throw new NotImplementedException("Not implemented");
     }
 
-    /**
-     * custom serialization support
-     * @param oos
-     */
-    private void writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream oos) {
-        try {
-        	byte[] ourBytes = SerializationWriteToBytes();
-        	int count = ourBytes.length;
-        	if (JacobObject.isDebugEnabled()){
-        		JacobObject.debug("writing out "+count+" bytes");
-        	}
-        	oos.writeInt(count);
-        	oos.write(ourBytes);
-            //Save(oos);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * custom serialization support
-     * @param ois
-     */
-    private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream ois) {
-        try {
-        	// Load will do this if we don't but lets do it
-        	// from here so that the variant is set up exactly
-        	// the same as the ones not created from a stream
-        	init();
-        	int numBytes = ois.readInt();
-        	byte[] ourBytes = new byte[numBytes];
-        	if (JacobObject.isDebugEnabled()){
-        		JacobObject.debug("reading in "+numBytes+" bytes");
-        	}
-        	ois.read(ourBytes);
-        	SerializationReadFromBytes(ourBytes);
-            //Load(ois);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      *  is the variant null or empty or error or null dispatch
      * @return true if it is null or false if not
diff --git a/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java b/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java
index 6232629..b1e5275 100644
--- a/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java
+++ b/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class VariantTest {
 		testJig.testObjectIsAConstant();
 		testJig.testSomeChangeVT();
 		testJig.testByRefToJavaObject();
+		testJig.testManyThreadedInit();
 		System.out.println("Testing Complete");
 		
 	}
@@ -389,4 +390,88 @@ class VariantTest {
 		
 		
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Spin up a lot of threads and have them all create variants
+	 * 3/2007 there have been several reports in multi-threaded servers that show init() failing
+	 *
+	 */
+	public void testManyThreadedInit(){
+        VariantInitTestThread threads[] = new VariantInitTestThread[75];
+        
+		System.out.println("Starting thread test ("+threads.length
+				+ " threads each creating 10000 objects)."
+				+ " This may take 30 seconds or more.");
+        for (int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++)
+        {
+            threads[i] = new VariantInitTestThread("thread-" + i, 10000);
+        }
+        for (int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++)
+        {
+            threads[i].start();
+        }
+        int numComplete = 0;
+        while (numComplete < threads.length){
+        	// give the works time to work
+        	try {
+        		Thread.sleep(333);
+			} catch (InterruptedException ie){
+				// do nothing
+			}
+        	numComplete = 0;
+        	for ( int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++){
+        		if (threads[i].isComplete){
+        			numComplete++;
+        		}
+        	}
+        	//System.out.print("["+numComplete+"/"+threads.length+"]");
+        }
+		System.out.println("Finished thread test");
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * a class to create variants in seperate threads
+	 * @author joe
+	 *
+	 */
+	class VariantInitTestThread extends Thread
+	{
+		private boolean isComplete = false;
+		
+	    private int initialRunSize = 0;
+	    /**
+	     * @param arg0
+	     */
+	    public VariantInitTestThread(String newThreadName, int iStartCount)
+	    {
+	        super(newThreadName);
+	        initialRunSize = iStartCount;
+	        
+	    }
+
+	    public boolean isComplete(){
+	    	return isComplete;
+	    }
+	    /**
+	     * Blow out a bunch of Variants
+	     * 
+	     * @see java.lang.Runnable#run()
+	     */
+	    public void run()
+	    {
+	    	for (int variantIndex = 0; variantIndex < initialRunSize; variantIndex ++ ){
+	    		try {
+	    			Thread.yield();
+	    			Thread.sleep(0);
+				} catch (InterruptedException ie){
+					// do nothing
+				}
+				//System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());
+	    		Variant testSubject = new Variant(variantIndex);
+	    		testSubject.getvt();
+	    		testSubject.getInt();
+	    	}
+	    	isComplete = true;
+	    }
+	}
 }