I probably exaggerated somewhat. I'm fairly confident that it's because when you end the java applet, it doesn't really get ended, and it's still attached to the VNC server somewhere. (Maybe it's just closing it's end without notifying the server?) And since the VNC server accepts only one connection at a time currently, the applet just sits and waits for it to respond.

And since you're using IE, there's not really any way to totally shut down the browser to make sure that the applet is no longer running (which wouldn't necessarily prove anything, because if it never sent a FIN packet to the server, the server still wouldn't know).

I'm not near a place where I can figure this out right now, but if someone can reproduce this problem and then log onto the empeg and run ``netstat -atup'', that would help out. (Does the empeg even have a netstat binary on it? If not, I could compile one I guess.)