added a room to the db. wrote code to load length/width/height (x/y/z) dimensions for rooms. added test setting of some bitsets on a room in it's 'tiles'. added permission setting to loadChannels. worked on cmd_questedit(...). wrote dummy version of getQuest(...) function that just returns a new quest object. added docs to toInt(...) function in Utils. added op_qedit(...) to be the input handler for the quest editor. added boolean 'permanent' and a getter,setter to Effect so I can handle permanent effects (testing, really). added 'Party' class to package mud to handle player grouping. added ArrayList 'parties' to MUDServer to hold Party objects. moved passwd to user level commands, removing the @ prefix and it's admin ability to change passwords. wrote help file for 'passwd'. added topic retrieval into HelpCommand. made minor addition to database.