#6 all I'm seeing is the splash screen

[blackie]

I'm trying to run on Ubuntu 9.10. Running the start command opens a window but doesn't start the program. All I'm seeing is the splash screen.

Here's the error message that I'm getting:
$ java -cp cronometer.jar:jcommon-1.0.10.jar:jfreechart-1.0.6.jar:swingx-0.9.3.jar:cronometer.jar:usda_sr22.jar:crdb_004.jar:docs.jar ca.spaz.cron.CRONOMETER
Initializing settings file /home/tok/.cronometer/Settings.xml
Loading index...
Loading index...
Loading Deprecated index...
Loaded 52 foods.
Loading index...
Loading Deprecated index...
Exception in thread "TaskBar" java.lang.NullPointerException
at ca.spaz.cron.datasource.JarXMLFoodDataSource.initialize(JarXMLFoodDataSource.java:24)
at ca.spaz.cron.datasource.Datasources.initialize(Datasources.java:41)
at ca.spaz.cron.CRONOMETER$SplashScreenTask.run(CRONOMETER.java:445)
at ca.spaz.task.TaskBar$3.run(TaskBar.java:105)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

I don't know Java. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!