Any attempt to double click the installer ends with an error dialog "The
installer is unable to run in graphical mode. Try running the installer with the
-console or -silent flag."

Silent install works, console doesn't (looks like an intentional design choice
on -console, not the point of this bug).

running -is:log results in some stack traces before the failure.  

First, for 1.5.0_08

Found matching JVM at D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_08
Matching JVM home is D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_08
Matching JVM file is C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRE2F37.tmp
Executing launch script command: "D:\Program
Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_08/bin\java.exe" -cp
"";"C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRE2F38.tmp\setup.jar";""
-Dtemp.dir="C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp" -Dis.jvm.home="D:\Program
Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_08" -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -Dis.jvm.temp="0"
-Dis.media.home="C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRE2F38.tmp\setup.jar"
-Dis.launcher.file="C:\dl\java\ide\netbeans\netbeans-6_0-m2-bin-200608141200-windows-14_Aug_2006_1200.exe"
-Dis.jvm.file="C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRE2F37.tmp"
-Dis.external.home="C:\dl\java\ide\netbeans"   -Xms64m -Xmx96m  run  in working
directory C:\dl\java\ide\netbeans
Output from the launch script execution
StdOut:
(Sep 18, 2006 1:51:17 AM), Install,
com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, dbg,
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3136

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3136
	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$LazyWindowsIcon.createValue(WindowsLookAndFeel.java:1865)
	at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFromHashtable(UIDefaults.java:185)
	at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(UIDefaults.java:130)
	at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(MultiUIDefaults.java:44)
	at com.installshield.wizard.swing.SwingWizardUI.initialize(Unknown Source)
	at com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener.wizardInitializing(Unknown
Source)
	at com.installshield.wizard.Wizard$WizardListenerInitializer.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

(Sep 18, 2006 1:51:17 AM), Install,
com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, err, could not initialize
interface swing



Next, under jdk6 build 98

Found matching JVM at c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0
Matching JVM home is c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0
Matching JVM file is C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRECD18.tmp
Executing launch script command: "c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0/bin\java.exe"
-cp "";"C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRECD39.tmp\setup.jar";""
-Dtemp.dir="C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp" -Dis.jvm.home="c:\Program
Files\Java\jdk1.6.0" -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -Dis.jvm.temp="0"
-Dis.media.home="C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRECD39.tmp\setup.jar"
-Dis.launcher.file="C:\dl\java\ide\netbeans\netbeans-6_0-m2-bin-200608141200-windows-14_Aug_2006_1200.exe"
-Dis.jvm.file="C:\Users\Someone\AppData\Local\Temp\LRECD18.tmp"
-Dis.external.home="C:\dl\java\ide\netbeans"   -Xms64m -Xmx96m  run  in working
directory C:\dl\java\ide\netbeans
Output from the launch script execution
StdOut:
(Sep 17, 2006 7:53:15 PM), Install,
com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, dbg,
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3136

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3136
	at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileChooserIcon(Win32ShellFolder2.java:800)
	at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.get(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:274)
	at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.get(ShellFolder.java:218)
	at
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel$LazyWindowsIcon.createValue(WindowsLookAndFeel.java:2043)
	at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFromHashtable(UIDefaults.java:199)
	at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(UIDefaults.java:144)
	at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(MultiUIDefaults.java:44)
	at com.installshield.wizard.swing.SwingWizardUI.initialize(Unknown Source)
	at com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener.wizardInitializing(Unknown
Source)
	at com.installshield.wizard.Wizard$WizardListenerInitializer.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

(Sep 17, 2006 7:53:15 PM), Install,
com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, err, could not initialize
interface swing

This may need to get passed to macromedia themselves, but in the end some
resolution is needed to get Netbeans 6 installing under Vista, so don't close it
as InstallShields fault and require zip file installation!