Thanks for the reply Mike! Everyone else who's interested, feel free to take a look as well...
I setup some test pages. http://www.jlhweb.org/mytest/index.php?fnc=test and http://www.jlhweb.org/mytest/index.php?fnc=test2 Each has a link to a business card. On the biz card you'll need to click "edit." On "test," you'll see tinymce loaded on the description textarea. feel free to try it out. it will work the first time, but not on subsequent attempts. On "test2," you'll see just a plain textarea in the edit window, and it will work over and over again. A copy of the jQuery code is at http://www.jlhweb.org/mytest/jquery.txt Line 74 "// Edit buttons (opens asset_form)" begins the appropriate jQuery for that Edit window. The only difference between "test" and "test2" is "test2" is lacking the tinyMCE.init() function. thanks!!!