Bah! Humbug! And hosting too.

Surprise surprise, it was a stupid oversight that was messing up my database connection, but I still have to rework the text panel/data entry section that's been largely untouched from day one.  Paul mentioned the nightmare concept "Gridbag layout" for added prettiness.  Rather him than me.  I've done everything with Flow, Grid and Border and it's been pretty good so far.

We're looking at web hosting companies.  Good as Freedom To Surf is, they're not taking in new free sites any more, which could well be the beginning of the end for my yearlong tenure on their server.  It would be nice to have a server on the same continent as we are, even though Paul found a decent web host in India for a mere 900 Rupees a month ($20).  Webalizer stats would be nice, but aren't essential, PHP, MySQL and JSP's are on the required features list.  Our own domain name would be very nice.

Paul suggested fartingshark, starchedweasel, looseelastic, and mentallyunbalanced, all of which are wholly available (com, net, org, biz, and info extensions) for some strange reason.