He's such a blowhard.

I tweaked your script and re-upped it as "Spineless Again" -- with full credit to your original coding. I honestly have no idea what I'm doing, so it could be flat-out wrong, but my tweaks seemed to work. You have more users of this thing, so probably better if you could update yours! (The div class has been changed to "the-spine," and it appears you no longer would want to hide the parent.) Thanks!