Great, thanks for the blogging access.
It's all stemmed from that THEAD hack for table headers I posted a while ago. The short of it is you wrap the entire <BODY> of a view's xsl in a <TABLE><THEAD> set of tags. :-D
Now it has a quirk where it makes the View look 'ugly' with borders normally invisible showing up in Design mode, but in Preview and Publish it all looks fine!
I'll work on a blog tute.