[jQuery] IE7, .find, .each, XML problem

[Dough Boy]

It is simple...it works in FF and Chrome (haven't tried other
browsers).

Here is the basic code:

 $(messages).find('item').each(
    function(){
 alert($(this).attr('id'));
});

If I alert the "messages" before this you can see the XML data in all
browsers.  For some reason IE 7 will not go "into" the each part.

Thanks for the help.