EVALUATION

This is a regression introduced by the fix for 
6435825 [Win Vista: add animation support for swing components.]
That fix sends a number of repaint events to a component to animate it from the old state to the new one. It works under the assumption that there is a one to one mapping between an instance of component and rendered widget on the screen. This assumption is wrong for JTree, JList and JTable for they might have the same component used to render multiple widgets on the screen.
                                     

WORK AROUND

One can disable animation on vista running java with
java -Dswing.disablevistaanimation=true

that should fix this problem
                                     

EVALUATION

Unfortunately I do not see how we can support animation for JTable, JTree and JList.
I suggest to disable it for these components.

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--- XPStyle.java	Wed Jan 10 17:13:32 2007
***************
*** 571,581 ****
           *                  the image to be stretched or tiled
           * @param state which state to paint
           */
          void paintSkin(Graphics g, int dx, int dy, int dw, int dh, State state) {
              if (ThemeReader.isGetThemeTransitionDurationDefined() 
!                   && component instanceof JComponent ) {
                  AnimationController.paintSkin((JComponent) component, this, 
                                                g, dx, dy, dw, dh, state);
              } else {
                  paintSkinRaw(g, dx, dy, dw, dh, state);
              }
--- 571,583 ----
           *                  the image to be stretched or tiled
           * @param state which state to paint
           */
          void paintSkin(Graphics g, int dx, int dy, int dw, int dh, State state) {
              if (ThemeReader.isGetThemeTransitionDurationDefined() 
!                   && component instanceof JComponent 
!                   && SwingUtilities.getAncestorOfClass(CellRendererPane.class, 
!                                                        component) == null) {
                  AnimationController.paintSkin((JComponent) component, this, 
                                                g, dx, dy, dw, dh, state);
              } else {
                  paintSkinRaw(g, dx, dy, dw, dh, state);
              }

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Do not do animation for any component which belongs to CellRendererPane. That solves it for JTree, JTable and JList