I have installed IntelliJ 10.5.1 CE and are about to create my first Java project in it. But I have to select a path to JDK. And when I press the button “Configure…” and the file dialog comes up – then IntelliJ hangs, and I have to kill it. I use it on Mac OS X.
How can I solve this?

Check the following bugs:
It may help if you disable native file chooser dialogs:
If it doesn’t help, attach a thread dump to the second issue.