VERSION is final static, so if you compile your application against 0.92 (for example) and are simply replacing the jpct.jar with a newer version without doing a recompile, your application will still say "0.92". That's bad...i'll deprecate VERSION in 0.95 and offer a getVersion()-method instead.
You are right about the JAW-problem. I'll fix it in 0.95.
Thanks for the feedback.