Just installed Netbeans 6.0, on Ubuntu 7.10, from the File menu
select "New Project", leave the defaults, click "Next" then 
which shows step 2, leave the automatic defaults again click "Finish" and the IDE hangs.
Ran "killall -KILL java" to shut it down. Looking at the directory  I see


ls -l NetBeansProjects/JavaApplication
ls: NetBeansProjects/JavaApplication: No such file or directory
shackle@shackle-desktop:~$ ls -l NetBeansProjects/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 5 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:20 JavaApplication1
drwxr-xr-x 5 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:33 JavaApplication2
shackle@shackle-desktop:~$ ls -l NetBeansProjects/JavaApplication1
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 shackle shackle 3316 2007-12-09 10:20 build.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 shackle shackle   82 2007-12-09 10:20 manifest.mf
drwxr-xr-x 3 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:30 nbproject
drwxr-xr-x 3 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:20 src
drwxr-xr-x 2 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:20 test
shackle@shackle-desktop:~$ ls -l NetBeansProjects/JavaApplication2
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 shackle shackle 3316 2007-12-09 10:33 build.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 shackle shackle   82 2007-12-09 10:33 manifest.mf
drwxr-xr-x 2 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:33 nbproject
drwxr-xr-x 3 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:33 src
drwxr-xr-x 2 shackle shackle 4096 2007-12-09 10:33 test

So the projects were might have been created.

Restaring Netbeans the project is not added yet to the list of project
but add project allows me to add it.

-- Will