Hi Bradley, thank you for your response. This is the JVM my Notes 9.0.1.0 client is using:
C:\IBM\Notes\jvm\bin>java -version
java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pwi3260sr14ifix-20130729_03(SR14+IV46117))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Windows 7 x86-32 jvmwi3260sr14-20130704_155156 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - 20130704_155156
JIT - r9_20130517_38390
GC - GA24_Java6_SR14_20130704_1138_B155156)
JCL - 20130618_01
I had previously Oracle Java 8 installed on my Windows system. I removed it and installing still failed.