Gender irrelevant...
You da man!
I knew it was a Waldo the whole time. I just did not know that each reference would be loaded as an individual ID. I just figured the entry in the .xml was just part of the normal declarations of things to keep em connected.
Thank you!
I would like to note that this issue was a direct result of the "Monkey-See-Monkey-CutPasteEdit" method of programming. Instead of understanding what I was doing in the .xml I just edited the files of the addon that got me started on this quest to what they are now. If I would have understood better what Waverian had already mentioned in his posts I'd have saved a lot of time and frustration. Why must we learn to land AFTER we learn to fly?
Now... off to royally screw something else up I can beg you good folks to help me fix!
/cheers