Please disregard, I figured it out. There is something about jquery--or one of the plug-ins that I am using--that is adamant about the elements having unique ids and not just a "unique path".
My bad. When I make the elements' id unique and append() it, my problem seems to go away. Hopes this helps somebody. Russ p.s. Maybe we need a a "Gotcha" page at http://docs.jquery.com similar to the FAQ?
