For those of you who didn’t get emailed about this bug, I’m here to report that it has been fixed. This issue was pretty vital to Java2D’s future in 1.5.X so I figured that people would be happy to hear about it.
This bug was originally reported by abuse:
http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=2D;action=display;num=1076627809;start=1#1
It’s update has been released here:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4994576