thank you for the code you posted it helped me realize a mistake i made in my code
one of the first things i did in my original post was state that i am not fluent in java... we are kinda just repeating it...
this is the only place for me to go to find the help i need without having to stop EVERYTHING I AM DOING and read an entire book on Java, which is approximately 1300 pages long. im not saying that i know Java cause i dont... i have already called myself out on it in my original post
but again, thank you, you helped me a bit