Trying to get arduino to react to data other than tag serial number

Yes wrong one, it is in fact the RFID_TESTER code where you try and read the serial number.
I am now on my laptop, so can see all three.

Can you post a link to the libraries you use as these are non standard.

However at a guess I would make the following changes

uchar serNum[5]; // array to store your ID
change to
uchar serNum[9]; // array to store your ID

memcpy(serNum, str, 5);
change to 
memcpy(serNum, str, 9);

However this bit looks rather strange

    // Check people associated with card ID
    uchar* id = serNum;
    if( id[8]==0X45 && id[2]==0X08 && id[3]==0X7A && id[4]==0XFE)

Is that checking one person? If so I would expect the id index values to be 0 to 3 not the mish mash you have. As there are no run time errors with compiled then I suspect that you are accessing array locations that do not exist.
For a test with the full 8 digit UID I would expect something like this:- And I know this is a rubbish way of doing things:-

if( id[0]==0x4 && id[1]==0x08 && id[2]==0x7A && id[3]==0xFE &&
    id[4]==0x4 && id[5]==0x04 && id[6]==0x15 && id[7]==0x45)