Thanks so much, Andrew. It mostly makes sense to me conceptually now--
I think I'm really close to getting it.

Unfortunately I'm stuck again, and my guess is it's related to the way
I'm trying to create the collections. Here's what I have:

    <script type="text/javascript">

    //<![CDATA[

    function load() {
      if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
        var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas"));
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13);


GDownloadUrl("merge.xml", function(data, responseCode) {
  var xml = GXml.parse(data);
  var events = xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("event");
  var params = xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("param");
  for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
  if (params[i].getAttribute("name") == "latitude") {
  var lat = parseFloat(params[i].getAttribute("value"));
         }
  if (params[i].getAttribute("name") == "longitude") {
  var lng = parseFloat(params[i].getAttribute("value"));
         }
  var point = new GLatLng(lat,lng);
    map.addOverlay(new GMarker(point));
         }
});
    }
}

    //]]>
    </script>


Here's the XML file (it's pretty big):
http://www.thekenshen.com/merge.xml

Here's the page it's supposed to appear on:
http://www.thekenshen.com/maptest.html

thanks again,
ken
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