diff --git a/java/applet/loading.gif b/java/applet/loading.gif
deleted file mode 100755
index eccd56712..000000000
Binary files a/java/applet/loading.gif and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/java/cmd/dist.sh b/java/cmd/dist.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 38d295365..000000000
--- a/java/cmd/dist.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# only needed for core.jar and pde.jar, hmm
-ARCH=`uname`
-if [ $ARCH == "Darwin" ]
-then
-    BUILD=../macosx
-    REVISION=`head -1 ../../todo.txt | cut -c 1-4`
-elif [ $ARCH == "Cygwin" ]
-then
-    BUILD=../windows
-    REVISION=`head -c 4 ../../todo.txt`
-else 
-    BUILD=../linux
-    REVISION=`head -c 4 ../../todo.txt`
-fi
-
-echo Creating command-line distribution for revision $REVISION...
-
-# remove any old boogers
-rm -rf processing
-rm -rf processing-*
-
-mkdir processing
-cp -r ../shared/lib processing/
-cp -r ../shared/libraries processing/
-cp ../../app/lib/antlr.jar processing/lib/
-cp ../../app/lib/ecj.jar processing/lib/
-cp ../../app/lib/jna.jar processing/lib/
-cp ../shared/revisions.txt processing/
-
-# add the libraries folder with source
-cp -r ../../net processing/libraries/
-cp -r ../../opengl processing/libraries/
-cp -r ../../serial processing/libraries/
-cp -r ../../pdf processing/libraries/
-cp -r ../../dxf processing/libraries/
-cp -r ../../xml processing/libraries/
-cp -r ../../candy processing/libraries/
-cp -r ../../video processing/libraries/
-
-# grab pde.jar and export from the working dir
-cp $BUILD/work/lib/pde.jar processing/lib/
-cp $BUILD/work/lib/core.jar processing/lib/
-
-# get platform-specific goodies from the dist dir
-install -m 755 dist/processing processing/processing
-
-# remove boogers
-find processing -name "*~" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find processing -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find processing -name "._*" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find processing -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm -f {} ';'
-
-# clean out the cvs entries
-find processing -name "CVS" -exec rm -rf {} ';' 2> /dev/null
-find processing -name ".cvsignore" -exec rm -rf {} ';'
-find processing -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} 2> /dev/null ';'
-
-# zip it all up for release
-echo Creating tarball and finishing...
-P5=processing-cmd-$REVISION
-mv processing $P5
-
-zip -rq $P5.zip $P5
-#tar cfz $P5.tgz $P5
-# nah, keep the new directory around
-#rm -rf $P5
-
-#echo Done.
diff --git a/java/cmd/dist/processing b/java/cmd/dist/processing
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f6944154..000000000
--- a/java/cmd/dist/processing
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
- #!/bin/sh
- 
-APPDIR="$(dirname -- "${0}")"
-
-# includes java/* in case a Java install is available
-for LIB in \
-    java/lib/rt.jar \
-    java/lib/tools.jar \
-    lib/*.jar \
-    ;
-do
-    CLASSPATH="${CLASSPATH}:${APPDIR}/${LIB}"
-done
-export CLASSPATH
-
-export PATH="${APPDIR}/java/bin:${PATH}"
-
-#java processing.app.Commander $*
-# if you know a better way to do this, submit it to dev.processing.org/bugs
-java processing.app.Commander "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8" "$9"
diff --git a/todo.txt b/todo.txt
index c67c50b3e..43cb83a57 100644
--- a/todo.txt
+++ b/todo.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ X Input Method support (for Japanese et al.) has been disabled
 X   implement as an option inside Preferences
 X   http://code.google.com/p/processing/issues/detail?id=526
 X remove preferences that refer to applets
+X remove applet folder from the Java stuff
+X remove old 'cmd' folder from the Java build directory
 
-_ remove applet folder from the Java stuff
+_ check to see if sketchbook is getting picked up for cmd line
 
 
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