Thanks for the help. I'm still fighting through this, but now I feel like I'm headed in a good direction.

I found that the parent to the story is the document itself. That's why I couldn't do anything with it! I'm so close that it's frustrating me that I can't figure it out, but I think I'm headed in the right direction.

Although I have had some experience with PHP (minimal), this is only my second venture into javascript and learning on deadline is not the way to go.

I'll check out those files becasue I agree — I can't make heads or tails of half of the help file.

thanks again for the help.