Thanks for good advice,

While was waiting, I started the installer and selected all webdb products to remove, figured I would then go to unix and delete directories. Installer ran for a while deleting some products, then a prompt for the sys password and tns alias came up. I have tried what it should be and everything else I can think of. Does anyone know why its not acceptting my password or tnsalis?

To test the password I tried to log into sqlplus under webdb env but sqlplus has already been deleted. This same password does work on the 8.1.6 env.

I checked the tnsalias in the tnsnames files, looks good.

Any Ideas?