I second your observations Ben. From a scan of Bugzilla it appears that a critical bug has crept into mozilla 1.0.0 (woody) and subsequent releases. Blackdown Java j2sdk1.3.1-1 also reproduces the problem. Others on bugzilla also have reported problems with JRE 1.4 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144079 j.
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