A little more digging, I created a JFrame with the DJNativeSwing browser right next to the test AWT window, and it bombs out with the same error. Have you ever heard of someone creating a SWT application client successfully? Mind you it's a SWT component embedded in Swing since the rest of the program is Swing....
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