Yikes, I am soo sorry you are having those problems.
First of all, you should not have to disabled anything! I built this site so that you would not have to download any 'packages'. Most of this site is reliant on
JavaScript and that
does need to be enabled.
You keep saying Java, and I just want to make sure there is no confusion with JavaScript. Java, is a server programming language, while JavaScript is a client side scripting language.
(if you are using ubuntu, I am sure you allready know the difference) With that said, I used NO Java in my programming. But this site is very heavy on JavaScript.
Have you noticed things like this happening with any other web sites?
I am going to be up at the University today and will see if I can not replicate this problem on the machines there.
If you had time, you could go to
Easy-A.com. This is my other site which is not totally finished, but I used all the same technology on that site as I did on this one. Take a poke around and see if the pages look funny. The home page has alot of the same tech as the Calorie Counter page here, more to the point, the search boxes.
Thanks!