Loading file from jar in webstart 1.5.0_16

Hello all,
We have recently updated form 1.5.0_15 to 1.5.0_16. Since the update, our application is bombing when it attempts to read an xml file from a jar in cache.
JDOModin.xml.XMLFileReaderError in building: C:\Documents and Settings\dave.frank\Desktop\jar:lookups\version.xml (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)
org.jdom.JDOMException: Error in building: C:\Documents and Settings\dave.frank\Desktop\jar:lookups\version.xml (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)
     at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:306)
     at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:617)
     at odin.xml.XMLFileReader.readFile(XMLFileReader.java:53)
     at odin.xml.XMLFileReader.<init>(XMLFileReader.java:40)
Clearly the path to the jar file is incorrect.
The url is retrieved like this:
private URL getURL(String filePath)
        URL url = getClass().getResource(filePath); // relative path "/lookups/version.xml"
        return url;
} This worked fine in the previous version. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Andrew,
We are having huge problems fixing this, and have spent quite a while searching the forums for info about it. The closest I've got is two posts where you mention that there are other posts. I can't find them.... Bloody annoying that Sun hasn't updated the webstart FAQ to tell people how to get around this very annoying problem.
By the way, if you google 1.5.0_16, your post comes up as the second hit.
Any pointers to threads that offer solutions to resource loading from Jars (images, auth.conf etc) when using webstart, now that it's broken in 1.5.0_16??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Craig

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