Why can't Mail pass a URL to my Camino browser?

Is Mail inability to to pass an embedded URL to my 'Net browser related to Java permissions which never stay "repaired"?
I performed the typical remedy of using Safari Preferences to set the default browser. No improvement.
When a link is clicked in a Mail e-mail, the browser window becomes front-most, but no new window or tab opens.
This problem seems to coincide with Software Update installing Update 3 to Java 1.6. Since that installation, every run of Disk Utility to Repair Permissions yields the same log of Java-related files requiring repair.
Any suggestions are welcome.

More 'cutting and trying,' to borrow a shop worn fitter phrase.
Asking at Apple Support for a search of "rebuild Launch Services" yielded 150 documents to inspect, such as OS X 10.6 Server advice. Not much help.
And I am resuming where I started because the Safe Mode repair didn't last. The Java 1.6 permissions faults endure, though, so I again repaired permissions first, then used Onyx.app to rebuild Launch Services. That reinstated the ability of Mail.app to pass a URL link to my default Web browser, which is not Safari. In a matter of seconds, actually, to my smiling surprise.
Thus, OS function is as designed among applications, and I will wait a few more days to see whether the repair is more than transient.
===== Discussion =====
What might you learn from this incomplete experience?
1) Don't decide you must completely re-install all your applications or the complete Operating System because your particular system has developed a quirk.
2) Be ready to look outside Apple Support search, which consistently offers me tons of information, which I am expected to cull for the exact phrase I submitted.
3) In my situation, with a couple of third-party maintenance applications already on hand, I simply launched Onyx and explored its many features for repair, for upkeep, including the always-recommended repairing of permissions. I never needed to rebuild Launch Services before, but chose that task because of the comprehensive description of its effect and intended outcome presente by the Help window in Onyx.
You might say that I highly recommend Onyx, though I use few of its numerous capabilities.

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