Success!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Just a few additional details for the benefit of anyone else who might be following this path.

Ultimately I couldn't add the user with the specified group ID, so I created the user without specifying the gid, and then changed the group ID.

Also, I had to add the user to the sudoers file with adduser jim sudo

Now I have a good deal of cleanup yet to do, and things to install, but I have a working laptop and account!

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