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DL'd a new copy with GetRight and still the same. Noticed this though, right click and select properties says that it opens with IE. Is that right or should I choose another app?

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I don't understand why the old versions have an .exe to open them and the new one opens by double clicking the .jar?

Because that old .EXE distribution was a big mess. It puts a lot of garbage on your hard disk that you don't need. It also took up space and bandwidth on the distribution server that wasn't necessary.

In addition, it's a big pain in the butt for Mike S. to maintain because he would have to build a whole new InstallAnywhere build with each release. And because it was a pain to do, he didn't do it. Instead, he put up just the JAR files and then people would install the EXE and not get the JAR, and wonder why the new features weren't there.

So since you'd have to put the new JAR in place anyway, and because installing the EXE is really no different than installing the Sun runtime engine (just messier), it made more sense just to simplify the distribution and put out just the JAR. That way, the installation instructions are simpler (install java, run the JAR), and Mike is more likely to do releases because it's much easier to just copy the new JAR to the server.

In any case, there's something wrong with the way Java is working on that box. You should just be able to double-click the JAR just like you do on your other computer. Don't blame the fact that he changed the distribution method.

By the way, you might want to try deinstalling that EXE version, deinstalling Java, and then reinstalling Java.