well...it appears to me as if your whole system is really not up to running modern apps..this is just a personal opinion...your vid card prolly only has 16MB of ram on it, and yur specs for 'normal' ram whilst nice for about 6 years ago, is really lacking for current apps...basically, and it makes sense if you think upon it, present day apps are made for present day machines...

IMHO a present day machine should have at least 512 of RAM, a minimum of 64MB video card (AGP or PCI-Express), and a minimum of 2.0GHz cpu...I think this is what's needed to deal with present day software...

as a note, this system is a P4 Northwood core 2.8GHz with a 256MB vid card, and 2GB of ram (really only 1GB is needed, but I tend to do a lot of things at once on this machine) running Windoze XP SP2....

if you archive things like I do, then take a few steps back with both your LW program and the Java release...