Why is Safari on Windows XP treating Java Applets differently?

Safari on Windows (and Mac) seems to load Java Applets differently. I review of the list of installed plugins shows both the Apple Java plugin and the installed java j2se 1.6_25 applet plugin to be handling the mime type for java applets. Does this mean java applets are loaded/deployed by the Apple plugin instead of the Oracle java plugin? Is there are work around such that I can make the applets behave the same on Safari as on, say, Mozilla.
Examples of different behavior:
1) ClassNotFound exception even though all jars and classes are in the classpath (loads fine on Mozilla)
2) Malformed URL exception when running applets from Oracle tutorial pages.
3) Javascript<->Applet communication does not work.
Thanks
Al

Never got resolved, so we don't use Safari for Windows even still in 2009 b/c this site crashes Safari. But the site works on Mac Safari or Windows IE.

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