diff --git a/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/plugin/core/analysis/StoredAnalyzerTimes.java b/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/plugin/core/analysis/StoredAnalyzerTimes.java
index b32cff7388..8072ec72d5 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/plugin/core/analysis/StoredAnalyzerTimes.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/plugin/core/analysis/StoredAnalyzerTimes.java
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ public class StoredAnalyzerTimes implements CustomOption {
 	public void readState(SaveState saveState) {
 		taskTimes.clear();
 		for (String taskName : saveState.getNames()) {
+			if (CustomOption.CUSTOM_OPTION_CLASS_NAME_KEY.equals(taskName)) {
+				continue; // skip this reserved key 
+			}
 			taskTimes.put(taskName, saveState.getLong(taskName, 0));
 		}
 		names = null;
diff --git a/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/CustomOption.java b/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/CustomOption.java
index 531691d803..d5fe87f61e 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/CustomOption.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/CustomOption.java
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ package ghidra.framework.options;
 
 public interface CustomOption {
 
+	/**
+	 * <code>SaveState</code> key which corresponds to custom option
+	 * implementation class.  The use of this key/value within the stored
+	 * state information is reserved for use by the option storage 
+	 * implementation and should be ignored by {@link #readState(SaveState)}
+	 * implementation
+	 */
+	public final String CUSTOM_OPTION_CLASS_NAME_KEY = "CUSTOM_OPTION_CLASS";
+
 	/**
 	 * Concrete subclass of WrappedOption should read all of its
 	 * state from the given saveState object.
diff --git a/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/OptionType.java b/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/OptionType.java
index 9be0fc9bfc..060c11f852 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/OptionType.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Framework/Generic/src/main/java/ghidra/framework/options/OptionType.java
@@ -100,14 +100,14 @@ public enum OptionType {
 	static class IntStringAdapter extends StringAdapter {
 		@Override
 		Object stringToObject(String string) {
-			return new Integer(string);
+			return Integer.valueOf(string);
 		}
 	}
 
 	static class LongStringAdapter extends StringAdapter {
 		@Override
 		Object stringToObject(String string) {
-			return new Long(string);
+			return Long.valueOf(string);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ public enum OptionType {
 	static class DoubleStringAdapter extends StringAdapter {
 		@Override
 		Object stringToObject(String string) {
-			return new Double(string);
+			return Double.valueOf(string);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ public enum OptionType {
 	static class FloatStringAdapter extends StringAdapter {
 		@Override
 		Object stringToObject(String string) {
-			return new Float(string);
+			return Float.valueOf(string);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -216,10 +216,11 @@ public enum OptionType {
 		@Override
 		Object stringToObject(String string) {
 			SaveState saveState = getSaveStateFromXmlString(string);
-			String customOptionClassName = saveState.getString("CUSTOM_OPTION_CLASS", null);
+			String customOptionClassName =
+				saveState.getString(CustomOption.CUSTOM_OPTION_CLASS_NAME_KEY, null);
 			try {
 				Class<?> c = Class.forName(customOptionClassName);
-				CustomOption option = (CustomOption) c.newInstance();
+				CustomOption option = (CustomOption) c.getConstructor().newInstance();
 				option.readState(saveState);
 				return option;
 			}
@@ -239,7 +240,8 @@ public enum OptionType {
 		String objectToString(Object object) {
 			CustomOption customOption = (CustomOption) object;
 			SaveState saveState = new SaveState();
-			saveState.putString("CUSTOM_OPTION_CLASS", object.getClass().getName());
+			saveState.putString(CustomOption.CUSTOM_OPTION_CLASS_NAME_KEY,
+				object.getClass().getName());
 			customOption.writeState(saveState);
 			return saveToXmlString(saveState);
 		}