Tomcat 404 redirect problem

I created a "Failure.jsp" page and placed it in my webapp directory. I then added the error redirection code displayed below to my /tomcat_home/conf/web.xml file.

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

<error-page>
  <error-code>404</error-code>
  <location>/Failure.jsp</location>
</error-page>

</web-app>

When I restart Tomcat and try to access my webapp I get a standard tomcat 404 response, regardless of whether the page I'm trying to access actually exists or not. If remove the <error-page> tags from the web.xml and restart Tomcat everything works fine. What am I missing?  It may be relevant that I'm using the invoker servlet in my configuration. I'm running tomcat in stand alone. Also, I've tried this on both Tomcat 4 and 5 versions with the same result. I also get the same result if I create a simple web.xml file containing the <error-page> tags and place it within my webapps WEB-INF directory. Ideally I would like to redirect all 404 errors to an offsite page as in   <location>http://mysite.com/error.html</location>

Any help is greatly appreciated.

- Rich
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