Following up my last post... Here is the route I eventually took.
I pushed the "Modified" into a calculated column as a contiguous string as =TEXT(Modified,"YYYYMMDDhhmm").
This allow me to bring the "strModified" in as a field filtered as xdMath:Max(xdXDocument:GetDOM("Receive")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/ns3:SharePointListItem_RW/ns3:strModified[../ns3:Group = "GOLD"]).
I then used this xPath to get the most recent (last modified) total into my target field: xdXDocument:GetDOM("Receive")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/ns3:SharePointListItem_RW/ns3:Target_x0020_Field[xdXDocument:get-DOM()/my:myFields/my:Totals/my:GOLDmax-modified = xdMath:Max(../ns3:strModified)]