Two questions:
1.) Has anyone seen this problem before?
2.) Any sugestions?

Thanks in advance,
Jonathan Ben-Hamou
(503) 504 7660

All of our normal directories are separated by forward-slashes, since we work on AIX.  The bogus directories (see below) are being created with backward slashes between valid folder names.  The bogus directory "collaboration_rules\HIPAA" is actually viewed by the OS as a single dir with name "collaboration_rules\HIPAA".
As an example, see how the OS responds to the 'ls' commands below, issued from egate/client:

AIX prompt> ls -l
total 208
drwxrwsrwx   3 tmib01   egate        512 Feb 20 16:23 LocalFileETD
drwxrwsrwx   3 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 24 21:44 NotificationQueue
drwxrwsrwx   6 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 27 13:59 ThirdParty
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate        512 Feb 11 17:47 ThirdParty\sun
drwxrwsrwx   6 tmib01   egate        512 Feb 19 16:05 XALogs
drwxr-s---   5 tmib01   egate       3584 Mar 28 19:15 bin
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate        512 Feb 11 17:47 bin\java
drwxrwsrwx   3 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 28 16:04 classes
drwxrwsrwx   5 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 27 13:59 collaboration_rules
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate       2048 Mar 28 14:50 collaboration_rules\HIPAA
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 27 20:02 collaboration_rules\tmi\EpmSvc
drwxrwsrwx   3 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 28 19:14 collabservices
drwxr-s---   7 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 27 13:58 configs
lrwxrwxrwx   1 tmib01   egate         21 Dec 12 16:59 data -> /data01/egate/tmib01/
drwxrwsrwx   8 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 28 16:04 etd
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 28 14:50 etd\templates\Hipaa_2000
drwxrwsrwx   3 tmib01   egate       3072 Mar 27 13:59 i18tables
drwxr-s---   3 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 28 19:14 iqservices
lrwxrwxrwx   1 tmib01   egate         28 Dec 09 17:26 jre -> /home/egate/egate/client/jre
drwxrwsrwx   3 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 27 13:59 lib
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate       1024 Mar 28 16:03 logs
drwxr-s---   2 tmib01   egate       1536 Mar 28 16:00 logs_archive
drwxrwsrwx   6 tmib01   egate       2048 Mar 27 14:00 monk_library
drwxrwsrwx   6 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 28 19:15 monk_scripts
drwxr-s---   2 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 27 13:58 scripts
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate       1024 Mar 28 19:14 status
drwx--S---   3 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 24 21:44 stcms
drwxrwsrwx   2 tmib01   egate        512 Mar 28 19:15 tmp

AIX prompt> ls collaboration_rules
HIPAA       STCLibrary  tmi

This looks like an installation issue. For some reason it thinks that you are on a Windows box vs. UNIX. There may be an environment setting to change this, I doubt it. Your best shot may be to reinstall, after confirming that you have the right version to install.