Webstart File - Preferences hangs on XP Pro.

Question

My Web Start console, Help->About returns "Version 1.4.2_02 (build b03)". When I click File->Preferences from the Web Start console, the console hangs and I have to kill it from the M$Windows task manager. I'm running on XP Pro SP1.
Is there a way to get a java conole for the Web Start application to see what is going on? Running from a command window shows no output. Is there a bugid associated with my problem?
I have not even downloaded any webstart applications yet. The only listed apps are "ProgressBarDemo" and "ProgressBarDemo2".
Thanks much.

Answer 1

My "Checking for latest version" problem also exists with 1.5 beta 1. It was a network/DNS timeout issue of some sort. The Properties dialog works, if you can find it. (The promised start menu and desktop icons were not installed, I had to dig into the JRE directory to get to the 1.5 Webstart console.)
I had my IE browser set to "Use Automatic Configuration Script" AND a manual proxy server with several excluded host names, including the one causing the problem. Webstart was set to "Use Browser Settings". This must have somehow confused webstart.
Changing either webstart or browser to use either the "Automatic Configuration Script" OR "Manual proxy server" (not both) made my "Checking for latest version" problem go away. The properties dialog for 1.4.2_04 webstart console is still broken, though 1.5 seems to take precedence when handling the jnlp parsing.