Gentlemen! Thanks for the quick response. I did uninstall Java, and reinstalled the latest rev. The problem remained unchanged. I ininstalled-reinstalled the Admin suite, in case the new Java hadn't been "seen". I dinked around the User Account for permissions, and tried settings in User Account Control and various security settings, all to no avail...
So i sacrificed a chicken on top of the 406v2 white chanting the MAC address. Messy, but this worked. I was inspired to look at the actual SSA shortcut, which led me to the Programs/Avaya/IP Office/System Status folder, where the file "Index.html" was revealed. The shortcut to SSA calls out the file "ssaviewer.jar" in that folder, which fails. But "Index.html" works after you reject Java's security nag. So I have a workaround.
Your fix should have worked, and maybe there is something I looked in the security settings. I give up. I'll use Index.html. I have bigger chickens to fry.