Forgot to mention. Yes I'm running JDK 1.7.07. The bug also occurs on OpenJDK7.

As you said, it seems like a duplicate of [1]

[1] http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-564

As far as I'm concerned you can close this as a duplicate
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