A node which generated 7 replies (not including your own) and to which you replied saying (in part) "Wow, thanks guy's, amazing amounts of posts trying to help me" did not "slip through the cracks".

Note that you have now described three different problems to be solved. Tell us the bigger picture. Read I know what I mean. Why don't you? then tell us what you actually want to achieve (not how you think it should be done - that has failed three times so far).