[COLUG] Problem with Firefox Finding JRE

[Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.]

I am running Firefox 2.0.2 on a 64 bit openSUSE 10.2 system (the package 
is part of the OS distribution).  JRE is installed in the defualt 
subdirectories /usr/java/jrel.5.0_11.

Whenever I have to access an application that requires java I get the 
message:

'Additional plugins ar required to display all the media on this page.'

Then Firefox tells me that the following plugins are available
Java Runatime Environment

but the Plugin Service Finder tells me that JRE is not available and we 
go around and around in a circle of diminishing radius.

Whst do I need to change?

Thanks in advance.