All items related to quartz in Minecraft have the correct shape but are white and have the words "missing texture" all over them. Refers to nether quartz ore, blocks, chiseled blocks, pillars, slabs, and stairs. It also happens with redstone compatators and hoppers.
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The main problem you're having is that you cannot update to newer Java versions. With Minecraft 1.6 the support for Java 5 will be dropped anyway, so there is little chance this will be fixed.
@Adric Blake:
minecraft.exe is just minecraft.jar with a small Windows launcher attached. It's still a valid jar file and can be run in Java.
I can confirm this, and I think this is yet another PPC bug. I noticed a bunch of I/O errors in the terminal (at least 18), and found in-game that many of the newer blocks had a missing texture for either the block or the item.