Uck. Way too much of a hassle just to have darkness removed.
Out of interest, which bit was 'way too much of a hassle'? Downloading and installing the client in eactly the same way as for any other OS? Hitting 'Software Update' to make sure your Java is current? Or are you embarrassed to be running an old version of OS X and discovering that it's not that simple? (I'm running X.4 and admit to not having tried the complicated messing around with SoyLatte yet).
Phades - a lot of people would never open a Terminal window in their normal use of OS X. They probably don't even know where or what Terminal is (but ok, my mum doesn't need to know what Java she's running. And she could probably find Terminal if prompted to use the search function). Using Software Update to automatically install whichever Java it tells you to (or, if you're on X.6 and Software Update isn't telling you anything about Java = you've got the right one) is probably good enough for normal instructions. Anything requiring opening Terminal looks like it counts as troubleshooting, or indeed is otherwise complicated.
I found out my Java version via Java Preferences, which lives at Applications/Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0, but I think it might be different if you're not on X.4, so that's not necessarily a helpful instruction.