[David Lame]

Thanks. Spent the night cleaning out the team laptops. Each one was different, as might have been expected.

We changed the command line argument in response to the announcement that the original, start of season, software contained a bug that prevented the Java dashboard from coming up automatically. On one computer, the "fix" pointed at the 2014 version of SmartDashboard.

On another one, one of our programmers had created his own user profile (against instructions of course) and some of the installation had occurred on the "official" profile, while some had been done on his private profile, resulting in some mismatched settings.

On one, the "automatically show widgets" checkbox was off. On another, the use mDNS was off.

But now, all seems well. Thanks for your assistance.