hi reevesy,
I have final solution for you, it might not easy but I will explain step by step for you

Actually, it's updating your YAMJ to latest build (not Y2M, YAMJ only)
1). Download latest YAMJ build (v2.7 r3142)
http://mediaplayersite.com/sites/default/files/YAMJ/yamj-2.7-SNAPSHOT-r3142-bin.zip2). Extract it anywhere (eg. C:\YAMJ_2.7)
3). Copy 3 folder from previous YAMJ/Y2M (Mediainfo/Skins/Y2M) to this new YAMJ build folder (overwrite it).
4). Delete Y2M registry, then restart your Y2M from this new build (eg.C:\YAMJ_2.7\Y2M)
5). Set new setting, then try to Run YAMJ.
if same problem persist with previous YAMJ build, I have no more solution .. but it worth to try.
well bit the bullet and did this.....got the java problem...then went back into the moviejuke files in the 'newly built yamj' and redited the figures to 512 as recommended
...re ran again....got the same fault as before with no movie art
this error log
[14:23:51 - main ] WARN com.moviejukebox.tools.PropertiesUtil - Warning (non-fatal): User properties file './skins/Y2M/skin-user.properties', not found.
[14:23:52 - main ] WARN com.moviejukebox.tools.PropertiesUtil - Warning (non-fatal): User properties file './skins/Y2M\overlay.properties', not found.
[14:24:14 - main ] WARN com.moviejukebox.scanner.artwork.FanartScanner - FanartScanner: Failed to initialise TheMovieDB API. Fanart will not be downloaded.
[14:24:38 - Thread-2] WARN com.moviejukebox.plugin.poster.MovieDbPosterPlugin - MovieDbPosterPlugin: Failed to initialise TheMovieDB API.
[14:24:59 - Thread-2] ERROR com.moviejukebox.tools.WebBrowser - WebBrowser: Error getting URL
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=The+Usual+Suspects+%281995%29;s=tt;site=aka[14:25:20 - Thread-2] ERROR com.moviejukebox.tools.WebBrowser - WebBrowser: Error getting URL
http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Usual+Suspects+%281995%29+site%3Awww.imdb.com&meta=[14:25:20 - Thread-2] WARN com.moviejukebox.plugin.DatabasePluginController - Video 'The.Usual.Suspects.(1995)' was not able to be scanned using the current plugins
[14:25:21 - Thread-6] WARN com.moviejukebox.MovieJukebox - Error reading the poster file: C:\YAMJ\Jukebox\The.Usual.Suspects.(1995).jpg
[14:25:21 - Thread-6] ERROR com.moviejukebox.MovieJukebox - Failed creating poster for The Usual Suspects
[14:25:21 - Thread-6] ERROR com.moviejukebox.MovieJukebox - java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\YAMJ_To_Mede8er_2.0.0_Shizzl_yamj-2.6-SNAPSHOT-r2943_32bit_18Feb2012\temp\Jukebox\The.Usual.Suspects.(1995).jpg (The system cannot find the file specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.moviejukebox.tools.FileTools.createFileInputStream(FileTools.java:421)
at com.moviejukebox.tools.GraphicTools.loadJPEGImage(GraphicTools.java:89)
at com.moviejukebox.MovieJukebox.createPoster(MovieJukebox.java:2455)
at com.moviejukebox.MovieJukebox$7.call(MovieJukebox.java:1497)
at com.moviejukebox.MovieJukebox$7.call(MovieJukebox.java:1486)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.moviejukebox.tools.ThreadExecutor$ScheduledThread.run(ThreadExecutor.java:101)
EDIT:
turned off zone alarm firwall and re-ran again
...this time i got movie rip details....but no movie art?
got this error log
[14:38:03 - main ] WARN com.moviejukebox.tools.PropertiesUtil - Warning (non-fatal): User properties file './skins/Y2M/skin-user.properties', not found.
[14:38:03 - main ] WARN com.moviejukebox.tools.PropertiesUtil - Warning (non-fatal): User properties file './skins/Y2M\overlay.properties', not found.
thanks