Josh set up Solaris on Virtual Box on a computer that runs Windows so that I could continue to work on the bash commands methods without dealing with "sudo".  Updated Firefox to 3.6.6 in the new environment because I got a message that said Google Docs was not supported, but I still get that message.  Also can't view the Java SE 6 API in this environment because it uses frames, so I don't use Virtual Box for anything other than NetBeans and the terminal.  I'm beginning to think that getting the right test environment takes at least as much time as the actual development does.

"Useradd" and "userdel" commands are now adding to and removing from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow but "cp" and "userdel" are not copying to or removing from the targeted files.  Am looking into "smuser". 

Started adding bash commands to the GUI.  Replaced the code I'd used earlier with something else because the first option wasn't working with "sudo" but now the new option isn't working with "sudo" either.  Have been trying to work around it (in sudoers) or disable sudo, but not really getting anywhere. 

I'd also like to combine the file-reading methods, but the code that differentiates them is all in try-catch blocks, and the methods are pretty small as is.  Don't know if it would really save anything, though it would be cleaner to read; that alone might make it worthwhile.

Think I've figured out why default behaivor for JComboBox doesn't select the first item (is my face red!); I set the first item's text to "Select account to remove".  Also, once I attached the JComboBox to the original JButton, rather than to the JPopupMenu (the intermediate step - it appears when the JButton is pushed and causes the JComboBox to appear when one of its options is selected), the JButton showed underneath the JComboBox, so I had to set the JButton to invisible while the JComboBox is visible.  The list in the dropdown menu (the JComboBox) is alphabetical now; I didn't know the Vector class inherited the sort method - it isn't listed in the API as an inherited method.  I suppose I have to look at the Collections API to know the full functionality of a class or interface - I thought it was all included in the Overview.  Added a label and textfield for name to the popup menu which adds single new accounts.  Am now

Finally fixed the JComboBox selection problem - automatic selection of the first item is default behavior (don't know why - it would be interesting to know).  Removing the ActionListener before populating the dropdown menu avoids the automatic selection of the first item; then I just add the listener back when the dropdown menu is invoked.  But I couldn't get it to select any item at all once I'd fixed that.  I tried writing an SSCCE so I could submit a question to one of the sites I'd been using for a resource, and found the problem while whittling down the original file - this is a powerful tool for debugging.  I had originally added the JCombo Box to the JPopupMenu that caused it to appear; when I added it to the JPanel that the JPopupMenu was on, everything worked.