I tried the new download. Same crash on startup. I'll include the console log. Maybe you can make some sense out of that. In the meantime I'll try creating a new administrator and see what happens. How do I reinstall java if I have to? I'm not geek enough to know about all of this stuff. Though I aspire to be more geek. Geeks are cool.

2004-06-12 20:07:28.241 CrashSubmitter[356] Crash report submitted!
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com.twii.ticker.applet.DataRetriever@671f95.suspend(): java.lang.InterruptedException: sleep interrupted
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2004-06-13 10:33:13.282 Mail[419] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
2004-06-13 10:33:13.286 Mail[419] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
2004-06-13 10:33:13.291 Mail[419] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
2004-06-13 10:33:13.295 Mail[419] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
2004-06-13 10:33:13.789 Mail[419] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
2004-06-13 10:33:13.796 Mail[419] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value
2004-06-13 10:35:51.791 Safari[421] *** Assertion failure in -[NSTextFieldCell _objectValue:forString:], AppKit.subproj/NSCell.m:1131
2004-06-13 10:35:51.794 Safari[421] Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil