I notice that you use lot of "if" statements alone. i.e:

if(something)
(There should be something her before going to the next if, or use { } between
the next statements if they are dependant on the above one )
if(somethinglese)


As I understand the problem, you need to use else { } between all of what
follows:

if (isLeap == false)
System.out.println ("It is unknown " + year  + " is a leap
year.");


else

{

the rest of the program

}


Try it and let me know if that makes or doesn't make sense.

I haven't gone though your actual logic, to solve your problem.

However ...

When you use if statements always contain the data in curly brackets {}.
While you don't need to by the rules of programming, it always bites you
in the bum if you don't.

I know it can be a pain to curly everything when you don't need to right
now, but if you don't it gets so much harder to find your bugs.

Actualy just a look though, it seems that you are using some sort of
package from Uni that simplifies some actions (import csl.*), so I had
to rework some of it,

Another one of your problems might be this

> boolean isLeap = (year >= 1582);

> if (isLeap == false)
> System.out.println ("It is unknown " + year  + " is a leap
> year.");

This is what gives some wierdness with dates before 1582.

Instead of this:

> if (isDivisibleBy4 == true)
> if (isDivisibleBy100 == false)
> if (isDivisibleBy400 == true)
> System.out.println(year + " is a Leap Year.");

try this

if (isDivisibleBy4 && !isDivisibleBy100 && isDivisibleBy400){
System.out.println(year + " is a Leap Year.");
}

I don't normaly give code out to people learning, but you where on the
right track and probably just need to see some examples to allow your
brain to bend around the problem.

I haven't check to see if this works, but I think it does (or at least
it appears to at first glance. Before anybody jumps on my head for not
using StringBuffer ... I know :)

Below works (apparently), give it a go learn from my comments change it
into using the package your course gives you (so you have to use Keyboard).

I was able to use your example and expand a
little on that to finish the rest of the code.
Using the && and ! made more sense than the if else.

If you mean that you can't figure out how to make the program  exit
without continuing, use System.exit(int status), where status=0 means
normal termination and status=nonzero means abnormal termination.