Signed Java Applets broken on Vista

Having written a pure java (applet) based installer for Dekoh, I had assumed it would work seamlessly on all operating systems. But I was shocked to see support for signed applets is broken on Vista.
Why do we need special handling in the Dekoh installer for Windows Vista?
The answer is twofold -

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