O.o
Well...I made this with java 1.6 not 1.7 but I don't think that should make much difference.
It runs on my 64bit laptop so that can't be it.
You are using a version of linux? I may be missing some .dlls but I think it would give a different error.
I'm on linux, that means I'd need .so's

But That should only throw an
UnsatisfiedLinkException... Strange thing...
I got a many of those when I was trying to figure everything out and generally it has to do with in proper offsets/pointer/other open related things.
Do you have an nvidia card or amd? do you have up to date drivers?
I have a nVidia GeForce 550 Ti.
Side note: I may write a tutorial on how to make a basic spriteBatcher using vertex arrays and VBOs to no one else has to suffer as I have.
Woah! I'd like that! I need to understand these ones, because I need a modified version for my game...