Unable to load the Super Bowling applet in smiliegames.com

Build tested - 6u10 b14 (swat build)
Config tested - XP Pro/ IE7

# Steps to reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.smiliegames.com
2.Click on 'Super Bowling'

The applet sometimes fails to load with the following exception:

Exception in thread "Thread-8" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0) cannot be <= 0
at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.Win32GraphicsConfig.createAcceleratedImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.createImage(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.createImage(Unknown Source)
at Jeg.n.f(Unknown Source)
at Jeg.n.L(Unknown Source)
at Jeg.n.<init>(Unknown Source)
at Jeg.l.a(Unknown Source)
at Jeg.l.a(Unknown Source)
at bowling.BowlMain.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

With old-plugin the applet always loads, with InvocationTarget Exception.