Java with Business Objects not Working under Lion 10.7.5

I had been successfully running Business Objects under Lion 10.7.5 and Safari 6 until this week. The recent changes in Java under Apple have bitten me. I installed Java SE7 Update 9 today, but it doesn't fix the problem. I receive the error report that follows (in blue) I've tried to get this to work under Safari and Firefox, but receive the same error in both environments. Any suggestions?

Error Report....

Java Plug-in 10.9.2.05

Using JRE version 1.7.0_09-b05 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM

User home directory = /Users/TennisonBay

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c: clear console window

f: finalize objects on finalization queue

g: garbage collect

h: display this help message

l: dump classloader list

m: print memory usage

o: trigger logging

q: hide console

r: reload policy configuration

s: dump system and deployment properties

t: dump thread list

v: dump thread stack

x: clear classloader cache

0-5: set trace level to <n>

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java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.util.PropertyPermission" "disableUnsupportedFeatureException" "write")

at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:36 6)

at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:560)

at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:549)

at java.lang.System.setProperty(System.java:781)

at com.businessobjects.wp.tc.TCMain.<clinit>(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessor Impl.java:57)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructor AccessorImpl.java:45)

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)

at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372)

at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325)

at com.sun.deploy.uitoolkit.impl.awt.AWTAppletAdapter$1.run(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:241)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:721)

at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)

at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:682)

at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:680)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java: 76)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:691)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:24 4)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:163)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:15 1)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:147)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:139)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:97)

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

at com.jidesoft.plaf.vsnet.VsnetMetalUtils.initComponentDefaults(Unknown Source)

at com.jidesoft.plaf.LookAndFeelFactory.a(Unknown Source)

at com.jidesoft.plaf.LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension(Unknown Source)

at com.jidesoft.plaf.LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension(Unknown Source)

at com.businessobjects.wp.designer.DockManager.init(Unknown Source)

at com.businessobjects.wp.tc.TCMain.setLookAndFeel(Unknown Source)

at com.businessobjects.wp.tc.TCMain.globalInit(Unknown Source)

at com.businessobjects.wp.tc.TCMain.init(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.deploy.uitoolkit.impl.awt.AWTAppletAdapter.init(Unknown Source)

at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.HashMap cannot be cast to java.awt.RenderingHints

at com.jidesoft.swing.JideSwingUtilities.<clinit>(Unknown Source)

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