>Then why does the KJV and
>NASV used different words at
> different points of the
>Bible, instead of universally saying
>"cross."

Responce: Because the authors of the scriptures used different words assuming that the audience would know what they were talking about(it's a figure of speech). also we get the word excruciating from the ordeal because it means "out of the cross". When the authors used tree the were refering to the fact that it was made from a tree.

Also as far
>as the New Testament goes
>the earliest copies of it,
>are in GREEK. According
>to Jehovah's Witnesses, the word
>in Greek is "stauros" and
>refers to "stake" or "pole"
>as you suggested. However
>they do not believe that
>Jesus was put on a
>"cross."
>
Responce: Yeah, Jehovah witnesses don't believe a lot of things that Christians believe. All one has to do is look through history and see that the Romans never put people on a pole as a means of cruxifition they always used the cross. And by the time that Christ came around they had actually gotten pretty good at it. then two you have to remember that Jesus had physical scars that indicated that he had been cruxified by means of a cross, and the manner at which he died shows that he was cruxified by means of a cross.