Answer: This site is hosted at GoDaddy.com - NOT by my choice! The DNS is hosted outside GoDaddy. If the A record is not pointed to GoDaddy then GoDaddy uses something they call previewdns.com. Previewdns.com adds stylesheets, html and js code to the end of the source code of every page that gets served. The code gives you a cute popup window that informs you that you are looking at a preview url.
I have taken this source code to two other sites and tested it there and...it works fine. I am complety convinced that the added GoDaddy/ previewdns code is interfering with jQuery. Sorry to be so negative but one more reason to not host at GoDaddy.
