Bizarre undebuggable plugin behavior... need help

I'm running into the weirdest plugin issue I've ever encountered so far while developing eclipse plugins. Here is the scenario - for the moment it does not even matter what this plugin does:

a plugin is installed the usual way, and we start eclipse with a new workspace. In this workspace, the plugin in question shows faulty behavior. Now, use PDE to start a runtime workbench from the instance already running. Try the same plugin in this runtime workbench, and voila.... it works properly.........?????????? The workspace of the host has no plugin code in it, so the exact same installed plugin is being used in the runtime workbench. Yet it fails in the host, and works in the runtime. How can that be? I tried both the run as application and run product. How do I even begin to debug something like this (since it works in the runtime/debug workspace but not when installed)? Any ideas welcome!

Off Topic: BCBS Florida sucks

Sorry for this off topic post, but I have to vent some steam since this has me totally pissed off. I was shopping around for better health insurance - which for an independent consultant isn't easy - and tried Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, since I liked their Blue Options plan. Being the honest person that I am, I mentioned a recent (12/04) "problem" I saw a doctor for (which I almost never do). I had a bit of a painful and slightly swollen lymph node in my throat and I went to see the doc about it. The doctor barely looked at it, touched it for perhaps 0.32 seconds and said that it was nothing. He was right, 3 or 4 days later it was gone. Now, 4 months later I get refused insurance because of a "Lymphadenopathy for which a definite cause has not been established".... This is completely insane!!!! I consider myself to be a healty person, have no problems, almost never a cold even, eat healthy, work out, etc. Just because some stupid non-issue, they deny me affordable health insurance is just simply ridiculous.

Eclipse On MacOS X : Broken - Another SWT-Related Story (cld.blog-city.com)

You can add my metrics plugin to this list of (partially) broken plugins on OSX. The dependency graph view uses the (or attempts to anyways) AWT_SWT bridge, which for reasons stated in this bug report does not work. I am in the process of porting the touchgraph library I use here to pure SWT and Draw2D, but progress is slow... :-(

Eclipse On MacOS X : Broken - Another SWT-Related Story (cld.blog-city.com)