i havent tried installing Java 5... because it will keep asking me to update and go back to 6.

You should try it and see if it works. If it does then you'll know it's a java issue and you can try to find another version or wait for and update that might work. If it doesn't work then you'll know to look somewhere else.

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that worked (changing to Java 5 update 11)