Your system is in bad shape. Repair premissions of your HD before resinstalling Java/LW. Do so by openeing the Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities->Disk Utility). If that doesn't work, you should probably reinstall the 10.3.8 combo update or even resintall the system.

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