[saucerman]

so I found the problem with the script not invoking...there was a conflict in the  .ready(function and it was throwing a js error...to get around this I simply changed in your script include file all your "$("  to "jQuery(" and it worked like a charm.  Since many js libraries use $ as a function/variable to avoid the conflict I used jQuery.  you cannot guarantee that a function name is unique so it's best to use it's reference.