UPDATE: I'm foolish...working on larger problem. Down-vote at will - but remember how much staring at code can hurt when you do it too long :)

this was about a problem with the logic in the code above that i just solved, but i'd still like to know the answer to the main question above, i.e. how to refer to the param...

-- I'm a solipsist, and so is everyone else. (think about it)