Trouble decrypting from an Access DB w/ weird exception

[Charles Diskin]

  private String Decrypt(byte[] password){


       char[] charArrayPassword = new char[128];
                    
                       
       try{
                         
//char d = 
charArrayPassword = passPhrase.toCharArray(); 

                        //Begin Crypto code from <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/jce/JCERefGuide.html#PBEEx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/jce/JCERefGuide.html#PBEEx</a>
javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec;
javax.crypto.spec.PBEParameterSpec pbeParamSpec;
SecretKeyFactory keyFac;

// Create PBE parameter set
pbeParamSpec = new javax.crypto.spec.PBEParameterSpec(salt, count);

System.out.flush();
        
pbeKeySpec = new javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec(charArrayPassword);

                        keyFac = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(PBE_WITH_MD5_AND_DES);

                        SecretKey pbeKey = keyFac.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);

// Create pbeCipher Cipher
Cipher pbeCipher = Cipher.getInstance(PBE_WITH_MD5_AND_DES);

// Initialize pbeCipher Cipher with key and parameters
pbeCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, pbeKey, pbeParamSpec);

                       
// Our cleartext
String cleartextString = new String(password);
                        
                  /*      if(cleartextString.length() > 128)
                        {
                         String error = "Problem in decrypt";
                            return error;
                        }
                        if(cleartextString.length() == 8)
                        {
                            String error = "Decrypt is working";
                            return error;
                        } */
                        
byte[] cleartext = cleartextString.getBytes();
                        
// Decrypt the cleartext
byte[] deciphertext = pbeCipher.doFinal(password);
// String news = new String(deciphertext);
                       return new String(deciphertext);
            
                       }// end try
catch(Exception e){
exceptionCatcher = e;     
}
String s = "not working!";
   return s; 
}

    

Trying to take out an encrypted password from an Access Database and decrypt it, when the value is put in it is fine, but when it is pulled out of the DB and decrypted it kicks to an exception:

javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length must be multiple of 8 when decrypting with padded cipher

I understand this seems like a security question but we've narrowed it down to something odd going on while it's stored inside the access DB. Any help/comments would be great.

Thanks in advance!