Scratch

YAY! Sadly, I can't use the mac till monday. I'll fix it then.

First you have to.........uhhhh.........dangit I had it all in my head. SORRY!!! 

I have to download all the games I play because my computer moves too slow unless I keep reloading and reloading the game page. 

Scratch on your cell phone RULZ......................but it could cause problems.

This problem should be fixed now. Here is a technical description of the problem:

The Apple JVM asks for "direct" mixer when asked for the default sound mixer through the call in PlayingSound.openLine.  AudioSystem.getLine() call is what specifically triggers it.  Now, this triggers calls to all installed mixers asking them for a line matching the requested line type.  For reasons I do not know, the Apple JVM thinks the "direct" mixer is one of the installed mixers, and tries to query it.  The sequence is, first the default mixer is queried, then mixing mixers are queried, and then non-mixing mixers are queried.  Since the direct mixer is not around, and it's classpath dependencies are not satisfied, the applet tries to download the classes it needs from the scratch server.  Obviously, the classes are not on the server, and it throws a 404 not found.  Here lies the logout issue.  The scratch server(cake php) invalidates sessions when this happens, and returns a new cookie to the applet, which in turn gives it backs to the browser after requesting the browser to delete the old valid session cookie.  End result, user gets logged out.

Adopted fix - drop a few of the classes from the sun media framework in the static/misc directory.  Result - the applet when running on the MAC gets the valid class files it needs, no 404s, no session timeouts, and bonus - faster applet loads as the spurious requests for the classes will stop after it gets it