Ok, I have a not so exciting update… I made sure I had the right version of java installed, and the not so fond of this java error went away but all the other problems remained. Still could not run any sketches in java or python.
I had already tried deleting processing and re-extracting the files and starting over in case I set something up wrong, so instead I tried downloading the 64-bit version instead of the 32.
Either something went wrong on the first download of processing, my computer doesn’t like the 32 bit version, or I was just doing something wrong that I don’t realize.
After extracting the 64-bit version everything is working fine. I’ve run a couple of examples in both java and python mode.