disposed component NullPointerException

[Asher Tarnopolski]

hey,
sometimes the regular Applet running in ie5.5
throws a NullPointerException saying that there is a "disposed component".
the exception tree is :

  
java.lang.NullPointerException: disposed component
at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.initOps(Native Method)
at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.createData(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WChoicePeer.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.createChoice(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Choice.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Panel.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Panel.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.addImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.add(Unknown Source)
at NewTable.init(NewTable.java:75)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
java.lang.NullPointerException: disposed component
at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.initOps(Native Method)
at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.Win32SurfaceData.createData(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WChoicePeer.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.createChoice(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Choice.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Panel.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Panel.addNotify(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.addImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.add(Unknown Source)
at NewTable.init(NewTable.java:75)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

what's that and how can i deal with it?
thank's in advance.
[ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: Asher Tarno ]

[Partha Kamal]

I'm having a similar problem, how do I solve this?