STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

- On a Win2000 or WinNT sp5 machine, install the JRE for Merlin build 12
  from:
/net/sqesvr/plugin2/merlin/beta/win32.b12/

- From the Plug-in test file:
http://sqesvr.eng.sun.com/plugin2/doc/merlin/JPI_QL_B12.html
  run the Optional Package (Standard Extension Installation) QL Tests from
  within either IE5.0, NS4.72 browsers.

RESULTS:

- For both English JRE and the I18N JRE, the QL test applet
http://javaweb.eng.sun.com/~wanyee/stdext/testcases/java3d/HelloUniverseSigned.html
  the following is observed after the necessary package is installed:

Installation successful
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/media/j3d/SceneGraphObject
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

The applet fails using I18n and English JRE for Merlin b-08 and b-12 on WinNT and Win2000 using IE5.0 and NS4.72. Works fine for Kestrel FCS C.