Sometimes programming can make you question your sanity. If you don’t think you’ve crossed the line there, you might at least wonder whether you should take up something a little more tangible, like backhoe operator. Such was the case as I scoured the documentation for the Script.aculo.us Ajax Autocompleter. Ultimately, I was to blame it on the lack of a crystalline, 100% matched example for my problem. I must state for the record that Prototype and Scriptaculous are nothing short of miraculous when it comes to making Javascript accessible to the unwashed like me. All the same, I have spent many hours over the last couple of days getting the Autocompleter to work.

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