The plot thickens. I got around that
problem by pulling everything out of
the jar  (messy but it helped). This
way both browsers can find  it, but
on IE it works intermittantly, and
when it doesn't it kills all JavaScript
on the page. And this is an applet
that worked find when I built it
with Forte. JBuilder is cool, but
if I can't make a working applet  with
it, it goes to the trash heap. I'm
sure somebody must have at one time
or another. Very frustrating.

Still don't have any answers other than
that it did the same thing  with IE
when compiled with JDeveloper or
Eclipse. Starting to think it's a
JavaScript problem that I hadn't
noticed before. As for the JAR file
issue, I'll ponder on that later.
Too much else to do right now. But
I'd still be interested in hearing
anyone's thoughts on the matter.
Despite wasting a day on all this,
I still like JBuilder better than
anything else.