I cannot for the life of me figure this out. All the wiki pages and threads here say to edit the server properties in notepad and run the start server.bat.

I downloaded the server software from the multiplayer page on minecraft.net. When I open the file, there is only 3 things in there, a readme file, the minecraft-server jar file, and the start server batch file. When I try to just run the start server.bat, I get a command prompt window just saying

"'java' is not recognized as a internal or external command, operable program, or batch file
press any key to continue. . ."

Which doing so closes the window.

I am trying to get this running on a windows XP-64bit computer, hope that isn't a problem.