Problem decorating static html in Sun ONE Web Server 6.1SP4

Hey everyone,

I feel like I have seen this before, but I could not find much on it.

Anyway I have some static content in an HTML file and SiteMesh is having one 
helluva time with it. The result of the sitemesh filtering/rendering gets 
truncated. If I change the extension of the file to .vm it works fine. If I 
map .html to the VelocityServlet that works too. However if I do nothing but 
the the container and sitemesh handle the plain HTML file, it winds up just 
stopping the rendering of the page. It gets about 1/4 of the way through the 
decorator (the $body is about 3/4 of the way down the decorator file)

Like I said, I'm using Sun ONE Web Server 6.1SP4 and Sitemesh 2.2.1

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
Frank