Java update breaks apps

just updated my java, thus found out most of my java apps broke
Dude seriously, never gonna update java when apple wants me to.
How do I go back?

I reported this problem to Apple in bug 6985275. They closed it as "Behaves correctly", with this reply:
09-Jul-2009 10:09 AM Jason Yeo : Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended based on the following information: The double-clickable Java Web Start.app is no longer required to be present in /Applications, because it's UI has been integrated into Java Preferences. The Java Web Start.app JNLP launcher is present in /System/Library/CoreServices, however there are no user-serviceable parts inside.
I don't think they understand the problem. By relocating Java Web Start, they've broken the JNLP file type associations, causing JNLP files to open in TextEdit. You can see this by getting "Info" for a JNLP file in the Finder; the associated application for open the file will be TextEdit. If you manually install the Java update again (not via Software Update, download the .dmg) this corrects the problem.

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