Coldfusion5 Unhandled System exception when calling Java multiple times

[Andy]

Hi,

I have a problem with my Coldfusion 5 app (I cannot use any other
version), where multiple fast page loads with calls to Java routines
cause an Unhandled System Exception - which is not caught by try/catch
blocks, and prevents any further Java calls until the server is
restarted.

The Java Application is started once with the following:

<cfobject type="Java" action="Create" class="package.class"
name="Application.myName">

Calls are then made to the methods by the following:

<cfset initresult = Application.myName.initialise()>

This is all done with <cflock> tags specifying scope="Application"

If the system is treated nicely, and multiple fast page loads are not
performed, things run fine. Could anyone help out here?

TIA

-Andy