java update today [2012-07-20] borked ubuntu serviio?

hello...

after much hair pulling for a couple weeks, i had finally gotten my panasonic viera to connect to and stream most videos to my newly setup serviio box running on ubuntu 12.04.
it had some issues [no .avi playback and no ffwd function] but it was working for the most part.
then a couple hours ago i ran apt to do my regular updating procedure, and now it appears that some java/icedtea updates have borked the server.
when i run ./serviio.sh no error comes up in the terminal, but running ./serviio-consle.sh gives the error:

** (java:3521): WARNING **: The connection is closed

and a requester comes up titled: Serviio error
reading: Cannot connect to Serviio server, it does not appear to be running. Exiting...

what have i broken and can i fix it easily?
i was really looking forward to watching some WRC videos this weekend

this would probably be useful... from the log on last statup attempt:

2012-07-21 01:52:04,105 INFO [MediaServer] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
2012-07-21 01:52:04,107 INFO [MediaServer] Serviio DLNA media streaming server v 0.6.0.1 (rev. 8e4ee98bff12)
2012-07-21 01:52:04,107 INFO [MediaServer] Petr Nejedly 2009-2011
2012-07-21 01:52:04,107 INFO [MediaServer] http://www.serviio.org
2012-07-21 01:52:04,107 INFO [MediaServer]
2012-07-21 01:52:04,107 INFO [MediaServer] Java 1.6.0_24-Sun Microsystems Inc.
2012-07-21 01:52:04,107 INFO [MediaServer] OS Linux i386 3.2.0-23-generic-pae
2012-07-21 01:52:04,108 INFO [MediaServer] File encoding: UTF-8
2012-07-21 01:52:04,108 INFO [MediaServer] Headless mode enabled: true
2012-07-21 01:52:04,108 INFO [MediaServer] User home dir: /root
2012-07-21 01:52:04,108 INFO [MediaServer] Temp dir: /tmp
2012-07-21 01:52:04,108 INFO [MediaServer] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
2012-07-21 01:52:04,380 INFO [RestletServer] Starting Restlet server exposed on port 23423
2012-07-21 01:52:04,523 INFO [DBSchemaUpdateExecutor] Checking if DB schema needs to be updated
2012-07-21 01:52:07,686 ERROR [XmlUtils] XML Profiles.xsd didn't pass validation, reason: The string "--" is not permitted within c$
2012-07-21 01:52:07,697 ERROR [MediaServer] An unexpected error occured. Ending the application. Message: org.serviio.profile.Profi$
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.serviio.profile.ProfilesDefinitionException: Profiles XML file is not valid (according to the schem$
at org.serviio.profile.ProfileManager.loadProfiles(ProfileManager.java:156)
at org.serviio.MediaServer.main(MediaServer.java:105)
Caused by: org.serviio.profile.ProfilesDefinitionException: Profiles XML file is not valid (according to the schema). Check the log.
at org.serviio.profile.ProfilesDefinitionParser.validateXML(ProfilesDefinitionParser.java:693)
at org.serviio.profile.ProfilesDefinitionParser.parseDefinition(ProfilesDefinitionParser.java:128)
at org.serviio.profile.ProfileManager.loadProfiles(ProfileManager.java:154)
... 1 more

okay - i'm not sure how it happened, but a stray string "--" found its way into the profiles.xml [just like the log said].
i've not edited the file since the last restart of the system, but lo and behold, there it was.