[news.eclipse.platform] strange applet crash: any ideas?

["Paul Th. Keyser" <rolarenfan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a *very* simple applet, run using an Applet-launch-config (and it 
also runs if I pass the appropriate HTML to an external browser) -- it's 
just a stripped-down version of the old Clock applet by Rachel Gollub. 
But *sometimes* on shut-down of the applet, I get this strange crash 
(below) -- any ideas?

thanks,
Paul

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException: 
disposed component
	at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.initOps(Native Method)
	at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.createData(Unknown Source)
	at sun.awt.Win32GraphicsConfig.createSurfaceData(Unknown Source)
	at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.replaceSurfaceData(Unknown Source)
	at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.replaceSurfaceData(Unknown Source)
	at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer$2.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)