<cfspreadsheet> in ColdFusion 9 failing

Running CF 9 Standard v. 9,0,0,251028 (release version, not beta) on Windows Server 2003.  When executing a simple

     <cfspreadsheet action="read" src="#ExpandPath('incoming\test.xls')#" name="qSheet">

the template fails so badly that not even the debug information is displayed on the screen.  However, the application.log and exception.log files record the error each time (see excerpt below).  I've tried different .xls files with no success.  Do I need MS Excel installed on the server running CF?  Thanks.

"Error","jrpp-20","10/21/09","11:32:45",,"org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem.hasPOIFSHeader(Ljava/io/InputStream;)Z The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\Inetpub\Internal\DBStatementImport\test.cfm, line: 114 "

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem.hasPOIFSHeader(Ljava/io/InputStream;)Z

at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:59)

at coldfusion.excel.Excel.createNewWorkbook(Excel.java:132)

at coldfusion.excel.Excel.<init>(Excel.java:92)

at coldfusion.tagext.lang.SpreadSheetTag.saveToVar(SpreadSheetTag.java:274)

at coldfusion.tagext.lang.SpreadSheetTag.doStartTag(SpreadSheetTag.java:117)

at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:2722)

at cftest2ecfm1163361770.runPage(C:\Inetpub\Internal\DBStatementImport\test.cfm:114)

at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:231)

at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:416)

at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)

at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:363)

at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)

at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)

at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:87)

at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70)

at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:74)

at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)

at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)

at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46)

at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)

at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)

at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:53)

at coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter.java:126)

at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200)

at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)

at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86)

at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)

at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)

at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94)

at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)

at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)

at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)

at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)

at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)

at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)

at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)

at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)

at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)

at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)