Well...I just got lucky - somehow fixed it and am not sure how?
I'll update my post if I do, but it's really late right now :-)

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Clayton Dukes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Read that...been reading for days now, hopefully someone can help me :-)
>
> What I ended up doing was to store the information into a table
> (mysql) so that I could load portlets from there per user (it also
> allows me to store individual portlet.php files on disk and call them
> using an include, etc.). I have it (somewhat) working based on this
> tutorial:
> http://www.kadede.com/disenyoblog/?p=289
>
> The problem I ran into is that sorting by yindex doesn't work for me
> since I'm using tabs - I also found that it wouldn't load anything
> after the first row.
>
> My code looks like this:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
>        $(".column").sortable({
>        connectWith: ".column",
>        update: savelayout
>        });
>        $(".portlet").addClass("ui-widget ui-widget-content
> ui-helper-clearfix ui-corner-all")
>        .find(".portlet-header")
>        .addClass("ui-widget-header ui-corner-all")
>        .prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-plusthick"></span>')
>        .end()
>        .find(".portlet-content");
>        $(".portlet-header .ui-icon").click(function() {
>            $(this).toggleClass("ui-icon-minusthick");
>            
> $(this).parents(".portlet:first").find(".portlet-content").toggle();
>            });
>        $(".column").disableSelection();
> });
> function savelayout(){
>    var positions = "";
>    var yindex = 0;
>    $(".portlet").each(function(){yindex++;positions+=(this.id + "=" +
> this.parentNode.id + "|" + yindex + "&");});
>    $.ajax({
>        type: "POST",
>        url: "includes/savelayout.php",
>        data: positions
> });
> }
>
> My savelayout is just printing the post variables for now, e.g:
> foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
>    $vars .= "\tKey = $key, Value = $value\n";
> }
>
> Which spits out this (example):
> Key = Select_Date, Value = tab1col1|2
>
> Note that the col1 is getting updated - the original position was
> col2, but I can't figure out a way to print out the updated row.
> Ideally, I would like to get it to print something like this after the
> user moves the portlet (I plan to remove the '|yindex' later, it's not
> working anyways...):
> Key = Select_Date, Value = tab1col1row2|2
>
> My page looks like this:
>
> <!-- BEGIN Column: tab1col2 -->
> <div class="column" style="width: 33.33%; float: left; padding-bottom:
> 100px;" id="tab1col2">
> <!-- Starting portlet for tab1, col2, row1 -->
> <div class="portlet" id="Select Date">
> <div class="portlet-header">Select Date</div>
> <div class="portlet-content">
> <input type="text" size="25" value="12/16/2009" id="daterange">
> </div>
> <!-- Ending portlet for tab1, col2, row1 -->
> </div>
> <!-- END Column: tab1col2 -->
> </div>
>
> If you need to see this live, let me know and I can send out the url -
> it's probably not useful to send it right now since I'm constantly
> breaking it :-)
>
> Note:
> These are all built in php foreach loops, so I can't list the row as
> an addendum to the column id, it's basically something like this
> (shorthanded some of it for brevity)
>
> mysql = get tabs from table
> foreach (tabarray as tab) {
> echo "<!-- BEGIN Tab: $tab -->\n";
>    echo "<div id=\"$tab\">\n";
>    mysql = get columns for this tab
>      foreach($colarray as $column) {
>        echo "<!-- BEGIN Column: $tab$column -->\n";
>        echo "<div class=\"column\" style=\"width: $colwidth%; float:
> left; padding-bottom: 100px;\" id=\"$tab$column\">\n";
>        mysql = get rows for this column
>          foreach($rowarray as $row) {
>            echo "<!-- Starting portlet for $tab, $column, $row -->\n";;
>            echo "<div class=\"portlet\" id=\"$header\">\n";
>            echo"<div class=\"portlet-header\">$header</div>\n";
>            echo"<div class=\"portlet-content\">\n";
>            include("$content");
>            echo"</div>\n";
>            echo "<!-- Ending portlet for $tab, $column, $row -->\n";;
>            echo "</div>\n";
>
> So how can I place the row id somewhere, and how can I recall it from
> the line in the function:
>  $(".portlet").each(function(){yindex++;positions+=(this.id + "=" +
> this.parentNode.id + "|" + yindex + "&");});
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Nate Laws <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You would probably want to use the jquery cookie plugin.  I
>> found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1370417/jquery-ui-sortable-and-cookie which
>> looks like it may point you in the right direction.  You should probably
>> search for 'sortable' instead of 'portlets' as its a more generalized
>> search... portlets are just a bunch of connected sortables after all.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Clayton Dukes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've spent hours looking for examples of this, the best I could find
>>> was at http://www.kadede.com/disenyoblog/?p=289 but he only shows how
>>> to do it with user logins.
>>> The problem I have is that not all my users will use the authentication
>>> system.
>>> Can anyone tell me how to do it using cookies?
>>> I'm a bit surprised that there are no examples of this, or that it
>>> seems to be so difficult, am I looking in the wrong place?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Clayton Dukes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > Can someone point me to some sample code for using a cookie to store
>>> > the state of portlets?
>>> > example:
>>> > http://dukey.gdd.net
>>> > login/pass is guest/guest
>>> > I'd like to store the state of the portlets on that page when a user
>>> > rearranges the boxes.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> >
>>>
>>>
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