Two Strings - Equals Comparison Fails

All I am trying to do is to make a section of code execute if two strings are equal. The two strings are userId and "A001062". When I use the debugger in Eclipse, I can see the value of userId as "A001062" but whatever string comparison I try never evaluates to true. I have tried

userId=="A001602"
userId.equals("A001602")
"A001602.equals(userId)
Assigning A001062 to a string called AAA and comparing userId to AAA

My code is as follows. I have also attached a screen shot from the Eclipse Debugger which makes me think the string comparison should succeed. I never see the debugger execute the print line nor do I see the print line on the JBOSS console.

String userId = StringUtils.trim(nextLine[HR_USER_ID]);
String AAA="A001062";
if (userId.intern().equals(AAA.intern())) {System.out.print("MKP1: " + userId+"-"+managerId);}
if (userId.compareTo("DTS0428")==0) {System.out.print("MKP2: " + userId+"-"+managerId);}