tomcat not seeing jdbc driver

[am...@wipro.com]

I have started a project in JSP, Java and Oracle 8i . I have Windows - NT OS. I had downloaded Tomcat-3.3.1a  and have JDK1.3.1_02  . I have classes12.zip in my classpath set in my users profile since i dont have admin priviledges of the m/c. On calling Connection from Java program the oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver has no problem  ie. its showing in the classpath and running fine , but the JSP on calling Oracle Connection gives the following error. Kindly assist .
Error: 500
Location: /examples/jsp/login2.jsp
Internal Servlet Error:

javax.servlet.ServletException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImp
l.java:460)
at jsp.login2_4._jspService(login2_4.java:114)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java)
at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.doService(ServletHandler.java:574)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:322)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:235)
at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.service(ServletHandler.java:485)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:917)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:833)
at org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Http10Interceptor.processConnection(Http10I
nterceptor.java:176)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:494)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:494)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:516)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
Root cause:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
at org.apache.tomcat.util.depend.DependClassLoader.loadClassInternal1(DependClassLoader.java:186)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.depend.DependClassLoader12$1.run(DependClassLoader12.java:92)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.depend.DependClassLoader12.loadClass(DependClassLoader12.java:90)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:120)
at jsp.login2_4._jspService(login2_4.java:75)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java)
at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.doService(ServletHandler.java:574)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:322)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:235)
at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.service(ServletHandler.java:485)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:917)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:833)
at org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Http10Interceptor.processConnection(Http10Interceptor.java:176)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:494)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:516)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)