LGT CAPT PUTS WRONG ENTRY INTO FMC. HDG DEV.

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FIRST DOMESTIC TRIP IN 19 MONTHS. FIRST TRIP SEQUENCE IN ACFT TYPE WHICH HOLDS JOINT RATING WITH WDB TYPE. FOURTH DAY OF TRIP SEQUENCE OPERATING LATE DUE TO MAINT PROBS; PRIMARILY APU INOP. ARR AT PREVIOUS STATIONS; MECHS DID NOT KNOW ABOUT PROB UNTIL NOTIFIED. MCO ALSO HAD TO BE NOTIFIED OF NEED FOR CONDITIONED AIR AND EXTERNAL AIR FOR STARTING. ALSO NEW DOMESTIC PROC FOR FLT PLANS AND WX. CALLED UP BY TICKET AGENT AT PAX CHK-IN POS AT GATE. HOWEVER; PRINTER DID NOT WORK AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS AND SWITCHED TO ANOTHER POS TO OBTAIN PAPERWORK. BACK ON ACFT; OFF LINE PLT REQUESTING JUMP SEAT. BRIEFED ON OXYGEN; ETC. CREW MEALS ARRIVE; STOW IN COCKPIT. I ENTERED THE RTE TO DEST IN THE FMC WITH A MCCOY 7 DEP AS PER THE FLT PLAN. MECH COMES ON BOARD; INFORMS ME ACCESS DOOR TO EXTERNAL AIR START PANEL IS MISSING. EXIT ACFT TO INSPECT AND WRITE UP. DOOR OBVIOUSLY NOT LATCHED PROPERLY PREVIOUS STATION AND TORN OFF IN FLT. AFTER WRITE-UP AND NEW MEL; ESTABLISHED PROC WITH MAINT FOR START AND AFTER START PROC. IT REQUIRED OPENING TO BE COVERED WITH SPD TAPE AND #2 ENG TO BE CROSSBLED AND STARTED. REVIEWED ADDITIONAL SPECIAL PROC REQUIRING SLIGHT WT REDUCTION. CONDITIONING AIR DISCONNECTED AND JETWAY MOVED AWAY. EXTERNAL AIR UNIT WOULD NOT BRING N3 TO START MINIMUM. MECH ADVISED AT LEAST 15 MINS FOR NEW UNIT. ELDERLY PAX BEGAN TO COMPLAIN OF HEAT. SEVERAL MINS SPENT ATTEMPTING TO GET MAINT TO RECONNECT CONDITIONED AIR; WHICH WAS FINALLY ACCOMPLISHED. NO COOLING AIR; HOWEVER. THE JETWAY WAS BROUGHT BACK AND THE TEMP PROBE WAS PUT ON BOARD THE ACFT. FINALLY; COOL AIR. NEW AIR UNIT BROUGHT UP AND CONDITIONED AIR AND JETWAY REMOVED. START NOW SUCCESSFUL. PUSHBACK AFTER PANEL WAS TAPED AND #2 ENG STARTED VIA CROSSBLEED. CHKLIST AND TAXI. NO WT AND BAL THROUGH DATA LINK. TKOF NUMBERS RECEIVED OVER RADIO. FO MANUALLY COMPUTES NUMBERS FOR BALANCED THRUST TKOF. ACCOMPLISHED BEFORE TKOF CHK. FO MADE TKOF ON RWY 18L WITH RADAR VECTORS TO A SLOW GRADUAL R TURN TO THE NE TO INTERCEPT MCCOY 7 DEP. AT THAT TIME I MADE AN ENTRY INTO THE FMC WHICH SKIPPED THE SLIGHT DOG LEG ON THE DEP TO CRG VOR AND INITIATED A DIRECT COURSE TO SAV VOR WHICH WAS THE SECOND FIX ON THE DEP. FO INTERCEPTED THE SELECTED COURSE. CTR SOON ADVISED WE WERE R OF COURSE AND GAVE US A VECTOR TO THE L (NW) TO REINTERCEPT THE DEP. AT THAT TIME; THE SID PLATE WAS CHKED AND THE PROPER LEG TO CRG WAS ENTERED AND INTERCEPTED. THE VARIOUS INTERRUPTIONS AND NON-ROUTINE EVENS ON THE GND WERE DISTRS WHICH CAUSED DEVS FROM NORMAL OPERATING PROCS. ALTHOUGH CHKLISTS WERE USED; THE TKOF BRIEFING DID NOT INCLUDE NAMING THE FIRST FIX AFTER TKOF. IN FLT AN IMPROPER ENTRY TO THE FMC WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED BECAUSE 1 PLT WAS NOT UTILIZING VOR DATA. THE CORRECT PROCS ARE IN PLACE BUT MUST BE ADHERED TO 100 PERCENT. WHEN THE BACKUP SAFEGUARD IS NOT UTILIZED 1 TIME; THAT IS WHEN A DEV MAY OCCUR.