While trying to narrow down the rendering/performance/whatever issues with the game, I just opened up the JAR that I'd previously built for it: https://bytebucket.org/rbair/fx-games/wiki/release/defender-jfx.jar
If I run this with java version "1.7.0_13" it works fine. If I run this with java version "1.7.0_21" none of the styles get loaded. Massive backwards compatibility fail between minor build versions?