Problem with threads within applet

Question

Hello,
I got an applet, inside this applet I have a singleton, inside this singleton I have a thread.
this thread is running in endless loop.
he is doing something and go to sleep on and on.
the problem is,
when I refresh my IE6 browser I see more than 1 thread.
for debug matter, I did the following things:
inside the thread, sysout every time he goes to sleep.
sysout in the singleton constructor.
sysout in the singleton destructor.
the output goes like this:
when refresh the page, the singleton constructor loading but not every refresh, sometimes I see the constructor output and sometimes I dont.
The thread inside the singleton is giving me the same output, sometime I see more than one thread at a time and sometimes I dont.
The destructor never works (no output there).
I don't understand what is going on.
someone can please shed some light?
thanks.
btw. I am working with JRE 1.1
this is very old and big applet and I can't convert it to something new.

Answer 1

Ooops. sorry!
I did.
     public void start() {
     public void stop() {
     public void destroy() {
          try {
               resetAll();
               Configuration.closeConnection();
               QuoteItem.closeConnection();
          } finally {
               try {
                    super.finalize();
               } catch (Throwable e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
     }