to Switch or not to Switch.

It's been a couple of days now. I've run into a problem I must resolve, before transforming my "machine park" into Linux's, and remove XP out of my sight, forever I hope. Ain't that a dream? Well, the nagging problem just put a stop on that dream.
I've been struggling with Firefox and the Java runtime plugin! I've had both the version 1.4 and the 1.5 Sun jre installed, and made the so called 'symbolic link' to both from the firefox/plugins folder, to be exact "/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/".
But they both had a very bad habit of yelling :

Netscape security model is no longer supported.

Please migrate to the Java 2 security model instead.

and refused to work with my banking applet.
Later I tried installing a Blackdown jre from the Ubuntu repositories, and letting this version tell firefox where to look for the plugin, no luck either, this time it just stalls when starting the applet.
I've posted my first question at the Ubuntu forums, so if anyone, with an answer, happens to stop by, please leave a note.

Thanx anyway. I'll report back with the solution, if I find any :)

Report back: look at another post, where I tell you all about the solution.