new UI issue in SOAPUI 3.5 and 3.6

I'm having an issue with the TestSuite windows not opening correctly. I started seeing this issue in SoapUI3.5 so I downloaded and installed 3.6 only to find the same issue. I can not open the preference window as well to view the application preferences. I click File-Preferences" and nothing happens. When I try to import my existing SOAPUI project I get the following exception in the SOAPUI error log...

I have been using 3.5 for several months without issue until yesterday.

Please advise ...

Thu Dec 09 10:45:51 EST 2010:ERROR:java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.swing.JFileChooser.updateUI(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JFileChooser.setup(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.eviware.x.impl.swing.SwingFileDialogs.getChooser(SwingFileDialogs.java:46)
at com.eviware.x.impl.swing.SwingFileDialogs.openFile(SwingFileDialogs.java:103)
at com.eviware.x.impl.swing.SwingFileDialogs.open(SwingFileDialogs.java:98)
at com.eviware.x.impl.swing.SwingFileDialogs.openXML(SwingFileDialogs.java:137)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.actions.ImportWsdlProjectAction.perform(ImportWsdlProjectAction.java:48)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.actions.ImportWsdlProjectAction.perform(ImportWsdlProjectAction.java:32)
at com.eviware.soapui.support.action.swing.SwingActionDelegate.actionPerformed(SwingActionDelegate.java:89)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)