Wow, OK, that didn't take as long as I'd expected... although the  
answer isn't quite what I thought I was going to say.

Here's your ticket:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151414/explain-the-jvm-directory- 
layout-on-mac-osx-leopard

Using TextWranger, open ~/.profile and add:

export JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ 
Versions/1.5.0/Home/"
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin/:$PATH

It may also work to use /Applications/Utilities/Java/{perhaps another  
folder here like J2SE 5}/Java Preferences and changing the VM order  
to have Java 5 at the top of the list.

OTOH, if you don't have Java 5 on that machine at all, you're kinda  
screwed. But on my OSX 10.4.11 install I have JVMs going all the way  
back to Java 1.3.0, so you should have some sort of previous versions  
there.

For more info, see here:
http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2008/05/21/changing-the- 
default-jvm-on-osx-leopard

Seriously, this info is sort of old, but I suspect that it should all  
work pretty close to the same on 10.5.

Laterz,
J


On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Rich wrote:

> Wow, at this point for me to reinstall everything is going to be a  
> major p-i-t-a, I can't believe there isn't an easier way to simply  
> get the Mac OS to look at a different version of Java.... maybe I  
> need to search some of the Java or Mac OS X forums.... plus I'd  
> hope Adobe recognizes this problem and has some kind of patch for  
> their installer....
>
> Does anyone know of a way to downgrade the JVM WITHOUT reinstalling  
> the OS? Is that even possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich

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