wow man you’re awesome. That did it and that was ultra fast.
Anywhere I can donate to your efforts?
I just fixed it. Where it auto inserts the call to the js Script was wrong. I placed the call to the panel.js right below the call for the overall JQ library in the header.php so that it was loaded before all the rest of my jquery and it started working right away. Whew, that was painful but man it feels great to solve the problem. Hope this helps others.
this is crap, i tried all the suggestions listed above with no luck. having to revert back to 2.7, thanks wordpress for wasting 3 hours of billable time.
Does anyone have any ideas on this, I really want to have this feature on my site.