Bill,
Most of the catalogues that you have named are actually small lists
that are part of larger catalogues: Collinder, Melotte, and Stock
are part of the Budapest OCL (and later, Dias
et al.), RCW and
Sharpless are part of Marsalkova (and later, the AGN), etc.
A good summary of the large major DSO catalogues (and links to
them) can be found on the Distro Astro site:
http://www.distroastro.org/catalogs/
The zip format is tar.gz and the line returns are also Linux-style,
so a non-Linux OS will need something like 7-Zip and gEdit to copy
the catalogues to a spreadsheet.
Note that all of these catalogues are already included in
Cartes
du Ciel in Distro Astro 3, so you could just download the live DVD
and adjust the magnitude settings to create an atlas of prominent
southern objects. (Even dark nebulae have been assigned "magnitudes"
ending in .99 so that the
Cartes du Ciel can display only prominent
objects, if you wish.)
-- sutekh