No apoligies necessary, my comments weren't intended as critisism, just a note of the situation as I found it and an attempt to take the sting away from the OP who had failed to find the removeChild() call, which is indeed, fairly self-expanatory once you know it's there.
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller
If I understand your problem, I can solve it! Of course, the same can be said for you.