Ernesto,
I was not exactly sure how to go about this: "
Section B contains the email view.
When the user submits, the form hides the tabbed view, displays the email view, and then sends email."
But I found another way to work around it. I moved the tabs to a section (section a) and then moved the rest of the form to section b. Then I made section A an optional section that is hidden and then can be unhidden by user (not sure if this was what you meant, but that is what I did). It works great, and I thank you very much for the help.
ps, My girlfriend is from Porto Alegre, BR. Ciao!