Your classpath is screwed up. Half the classes are being loaded from
an older version of GWT, and half are loaded from a newer version.
Double check your classpath; possibly you're picking up a gwt-user.jar
from one place and a gwt-dev-XYZ.jar from another. If you installed
GWT 1.5 by unzipping over the previous version, perhaps you unpacked
gwt-user.jar at some point to hack around with some of the code. At
any rate, try and install GWT 1.5 by deleting what's there first, then
unzipping.