Trouble with appletviewer

Hello,

I tried to run appletviewer to display a html file, it always tells me "[no properties loaded, using defaults]" no matter what file I put on the command line and displays Sun's default statements like

"Version 1.0 : Java(tm) Developers Kit

Developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, California 94043
Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Copyright and License Information.

... "

This appletviewer came with Java 2 standard edition I downloaded from Sun's web site.

Please help! Thanks in advance.