changed our GUI fields to public so we can access in the
ActionListeners.   

For future reference...how I am doing this is not the best way, we
really want to use a design pattern that is called Model View
Controller, this seperates our View (buttons, text fields), controler
(actionlisteners) and Model (data we are using) into seperate classes
and makes it easier to run.

But since we are limited in time this will do :)