My applet is complete. It works and all the data gets formatted correctly.
Thanks to all of you that helped me through this.

However, it's not all that pretty....

I'm getting "Not Responding" messages, Blue screen, screen flashing, etc. My
progress bar doesn't want to stay on top, and it takes 4 minutes to run (not
that bad - I'm running a match of 6000 numbers against a data set of 500,000
numbers.

I'd be pleased to send the code and data; if someone would look at the code,
try to run it against my data, and offer advice, I'd be very grateful.

Jim Berglund