Eclipse Ganymede throws null pointer exception - eclipse

my eclipse IDE throws a null pointer exception from time to time on a very regular basis (every 3-4 days). First my Java EE project(s) will not compile and will output a nullpointer exception in the errors tab.
I made sure that my project facet (java 5.0) and compiler are the same (1.5). However, when i restart Eclipse, the problem goes away after cleaning and rebuilding the projects - when there's no errors in the first place.
It gets annoying because it takes a long time for me to restart Eclipse IDE, clean+build, restart server and actually dev+test code.
I made sure I have plenty of memory too, 512 because I had a memory issue with Eclipse in the past as well but thats resolved. I mention it as it may be relevant.
I reintalled Eclipse Ganymede for Java EE 3 times in C:\Eclipse and still have the same problem too. Tried in D:\ another partitioned disk and doesnt work.
Advice will be greatly appreciated.
Eclipse Platform
Version: 3.4.2
Build id: M20090211-1700
Java EE Ganymede SR2 Win32
Platform: Windows XP 32-bit
Here is the stack trace:
!ENTRY com.bea.weblogic.eclipse 4 9999 2012-06-15 12:22:53.989
!MESSAGE Unhandled Eclipse-WebLogic error
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.bea.weblogic.eclipse.model.Deployments.getName(Deployments.java:292)
at com.bea.weblogic.eclipse.model.Deployments.loadEJBs(Deployments.java:237)
at com.bea.weblogic.eclipse.model.Deployments.loadAll(Deployments.java:109)
at com.bea.weblogic.eclipse.ui.views.WebLogicServerTreeContentProvider.loadModulesAndRefresh(WebLogicServerTreeContentProvider.java:273)
at com.bea.weblogic.eclipse.ui.views.WebLogicServerTreeContentProvider.serverStateChanged(WebLogicServerTreeContentProvider.java:247)
at com.bea.weblogic.eclipse.model.ServerManager.fireServerStateChanged(ServerManager.java:94)
at com.bea.weblogic.eclipse.launcher.ServerLauncher$3.run(ServerLauncher.java:199)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:133)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3800)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3425)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2384)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2348)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2200)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:495)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:288)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:490)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:113)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:193)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:386)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:549)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)

Some advices:
You could try to run eclipse from console, configure some logging to understand exception. Maybe you should remove some plugin that you don't use.
You could try to install just Eclipse Classic and after that install needed plugins. I do it always and haven't got any NPE exception issues. You'll get clean Eclipse without unnecessary plug-ins, so you reduce the possibility of exceptions.
Also you could try to use new version of Eclipse - Indigo.
You could also try to use some another IDE (for example: IntelliJ IDEA http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)
It might be also interesting for you:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=328550
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=321358
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=326434

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