Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / September 2008

I'm getting a Java exception playing Yahoo standard chess wit IE8 Beta2,
which I've played for years without incident using IE7.  It happens when I
try to close a window.
Here are the details:

java.lang.NullPointerException: null pData
    at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.hide(Native Method)
    at java.awt.Component.removeNotify(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.removeNotify(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.removeNotify(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.removeAll(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin.viewer.frame.IExplorerEmbeddedFrame.windowClosed(Unknown
Source)
    at java.awt.Window.processWindowEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Window.processEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Can you helpme please?