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Please help me understand this Java exception

I have a Java applet that basically downloads a file and draws a progress bar across the screen showing how much of the file is downloaded. I'm getting the following exception, but I don't understand where it's coming from. Can anybody help me? Thanks.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid remove
   at javax.swing.JTextArea.replaceRange(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.deploy.util.ConsoleWindow$25.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilter(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)
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This execption is thrown when you attempt to replace an invalid section of the JTextArea with the method replaceRange.  Do you call this method, if so, could you post some code.  

IllegalArgumentException - if part of the range is an invalid position in the model

replaceRange(String str, int start, int end)

Make sure the start and end are valid for the text currently in the JTextArea.  As a first test, I would simply eliminate the use of the replaceRange and set the entire piece of text in the JTextArea.  If the exception goes away, then it is just a matter of checking the start and end of the JTextArea contents before you call this method (to make sure they are valid)  Or - catch the exception and a handle gracefully.
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Here's the problem: I don't have a JTextArea (or anything that extends JTextArea) anywhere in my applet. Could the JTextArea that the exception is referring to be the Java console?
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Do you know how I can deal with it gracefully? It sort of interrupts my application.