When attempting to open or save a file, or bring up any kind of explorer 
window in netbeans 5.5 an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Exception is thrown and the 
window isn't displayed. This issue renders the IDE unusable.

This is the report from netbeans:

*********** Exception occurred ************ at 1:24 PM on Nov 21, 2006
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3184
	at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileChooserIcon
(Win32ShellFolder2.java:748)
	at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.get
(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:248)
	at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.get(ShellFolder.java:221)
	at 
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel$LazyWindowsIcon.createValue
(WindowsLookAndFeel.java:1873)
	at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFromHashtable(UIDefaults.java:185)
	at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(UIDefaults.java:130)
	at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(MultiUIDefaults.java:44)
	at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getIcon(UIDefaults.java:411)
	at javax.swing.UIManager.getIcon(UIManager.java:613)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installIcons
(BasicFileChooserUI.java:237)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installDefaults
(BasicFileChooserUI.java:219)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installUI
(BasicFileChooserUI.java:135)
	at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsFileChooserUI.installUI
(WindowsFileChooserUI.java:126)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.setUI(JComponent.java:652)
	at javax.swing.JFileChooser.updateUI(JFileChooser.java:1755)
	at javax.swing.JFileChooser.setup(JFileChooser.java:366)
	at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(JFileChooser.java:332)
	at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(JFileChooser.java:285)
	at 
org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.ProjectChooserAccessory$ProjectFileChooser.<ini
t>(ProjectChooserAccessory.java:506)
	at 
org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.ProjectChooserAccessory$ProjectFileChooser.<ini
t>(ProjectChooserAccessory.java:506)
	at 
org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.ProjectChooserAccessory.createProjectChooser
(ProjectChooserAccessory.java:455)
	at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.OpenProject.actionPerformed
(OpenProject.java:58)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed
(AbstractButton.java:1849)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed
(AbstractButton.java:2169)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed
(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed
(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:302)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick
(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1000)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased
(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1041)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent
(Container.java:4212)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent
(Container.java:3892)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1778)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
[catch] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy
(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy
(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents
(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents
(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)