Old image file has the same brokenness in Java. This suggests something else is broken, something with the interaction of Maemo 5 and the Debian chroot.

Just a note, we have a working, reasonably fast Java in Maemo now, although not in the browser. Please see this thread: JAVA on the N900 is possible, specifically starting here.

EDIT: There is also another brokenness that bothers me greatly. There are constant complaints from Debian apps that the GConf daemon is not responding to messages from the client. These error messages are new to Maemo 5.