JQuery Mobile + PhoneGap for Android - Error loading index.html

I am trying to get a basic PhoneGap + JQuery Mobile program running for Android platform 2.2, but I am getting an Application Error "The Connection to the server was unsuccessful (file:///android_asset/www/index.html)" in the Android Emulator when I try to run the application in Android Emulator platform 2.2 on Windows XP, with Eclipse 3.7.

The file loads if I remove all references and syntax of JQuery Mobile from the HTML file, so I am certain that my project is fine but there's something I am missing with initialization of JQuery Mobile. I am using PhoneGap 0.9.6 with JQuery Mobile version *1.0b1* with JQuery version 1.6.1 (I also tried with JQM Version 1.0a2 with JQuery 1.4.4 but with the same error).

If I remove all references to JQuery Mobile from my HTML file then I am able to load the program in the emulator without errors.

I looked at several examples on the web and tried them as they are, but all of them show the same error. My files are as:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=320; user-scalable=no" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>PhoneGap With JQM</title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.mobile-1.0b1.min.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8" />
        <script src="jquery-1.6.1.min.js"></script>
          <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="phonegap.0.9.6.js"></script>
          <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="main.js"></script>  
          <script src="jquery.mobile-1.0b1.min.js"></script>

  </head>
  <body onload="init();">
    <div data-role="page" data-theme="e">
        <div data-role="header">
            <h1>PhoneGap with JQM</h1> 
        </div>
        <div data-role="content">
            <h1>My Content</h1>  
        </div>
        <div data-role="footer">
            <h1>My Footer</h1>  
        </div>
  </body>
</html>

The main.js file has only:

function init()
{   
    document.addEventListener("deviceready", deviceInfo, true);             
}       

What am I missing?