Isolating capitals in Strings, and altering the strings.

Dear CodeWizards,
My friend asked me to help him write some code for his website he's making. I'm a freshman in college, in elementary Java Programming, so I thought I could do it. Turns out I'm wrong, we haven't even touched on the stuff he wants me to do, and I would like your help if you could lend me a hand.
Here's what he emailed me:
"Hey Jason,
You're in that computer programming class, right? Well I am making this website, and it has some little games on it and stuff. Part of it I don't know how to figure out. I want the person to input a name of an organization. Then I want the program to take all the capital letters, and put asterisks around them, then re print what he person says with the asterisks in there, as well as with the rest of the letters capitalized. Then I want it to print out just the capital letters in the asterisks, like an acronym. Also if there is anything in Parenthesis, i want it disregarded. Heres an example:
What is the name? Midgets Riding UniCycles (How Fast Can They Go?)
The name is: *M*IDGETS *R*IDING *U*NI*C*YCLES
The Acronym is: MRUC
Thanks,
Jim"
Anyway fellas, I'm in over my head here. I was told by an upperclassman this should be easy, but what upperclassman is going to help out a freshman, lol. If someone has a spare moment and they could whip this up, then I would appreciate it. If not, any help would be great. I am without direction. Sorry for being such a newb... Thanks again guys'n'gals.
Jason

What have you managed to do so far?
Here's some general advice:
Read the assignment text well, send email to your instructor about the parts
that are not clear, and start doing it. Only when you encounter a problem that
you can't overcome by reading your notes, the Java tutorial, or the
documentation of standard classes come back here and ask a specific question
with a clear description of the problem you are having with some source code,
what you want it do, what it is doing instead, and possible error message.
Java tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
Documentation of standard classes: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/
Examples of how to use them: http://javaalmanac.com

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