java applets in Firefox

[Brian Norman Wootton]

My java applets in Firefox have stopped working, I have 
un-installed/re-installed
all packages suggested by Adept with 'java' in the search pane - no good.
I have a page and a half of 'errors, warnings, messages' in the Firefox 
error console,
possibly nothing to do with the problem. My question is , does anybody 
have a clue
as to what is wrong, and who should I talk/email the list of errors and 
the bug to.
brian
Kubuntu 8.10, KDE 4.1.3, amd64bit