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

Indeed, good one. Didn't think about the existence of such huge variables. Not often that they're used.

So

char targetUID[9] = {0x04, 0x08, 0x7A, 0xFE, 0x04, 0x04, 0x15, 0x45, 0x00};

then becomes:

uint64_t targetUID = 0x04087AFE04041545;