Can't complile TimeAlarm library without getting error Alarm out of scope

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Thanks. I'm still working on this. Seems to be regressing - I can no longer figure out an order to compile the arduino and the processing without getting serial port related errors, and I can't seem to get the time print any longer in the processing monitor below the sketch . And when I do get something to show up on the Arduino serial monitor, it's gibberish, not time or words, which makes me think that WHEN something is passed from processing to Arduino, it's not simple ASCII letters, it's either out of the ASCII range or shifted within the range. So I'm scanning the forums looking for fixes, and trying some additional serial related sketches, and here's how I've broken down what I need to learn/test:

  1. be able to grab the Mac system time and print to serial monitor in the processing window (this step does not require Arduino serial interface yet). I had this working before and I'm trying to recreate it.
  2. be able to pass system time (or a test phrase) from Processing to Arduino and print to Arduino serial monitor (this will require solving both the problem of "one serial port for processing, arduino, and arduino serial monitor", and the problem of "gibberish appears on the Arduino serial monitor").
  3. be able to pass an analog input or some prestored test phrase from Arduino to Processing and print to processing serial monitor, just to show that I can do this both ways.
  4. be able to print the mac system time to an LCD attached to the Arduino (that was the whole point of this effort, I'm try to build an Ardunino/LCD clock that grabs time, weather, email, sports scores etc off the internet via the Mac).
    Do you have any other suggestions on how to break this down more simply, or for other good places for learning the basics? I've been scanning this forum and the processing forum, and looked at tutorials (like Element 14) and a beginner book (Programming Arduino Getting Started with Sketches by Simon Monk). I don't know C or Mac programming, but I'm learning the syntax as I go. Thanks again for all the help, and I'll give you an update as soon as I make some progress on the steps above.