Changing the Z-Index of a jQuery UI Selectmenu

I am using jquery.ui.selectmenu on a website that I am building. One of the select controls on a page needs to have its z-index set higher because it is directly above another control that has a non-zero z-index.

The way that jquery.ui.selectmenu is designed is intended to make things really simple: You set the z-index of the original select control, and the rendered select will have the right z-index.

Well it is not quite that simple. jquery.ui.selectmenu uses jQuery’s zIndex() function to get the original select control’s z-index. This function only returns a non-zero z-index if the original select control uses relative or absolute position.

When my select control kept using z-index of 0, I first tried setting it on the ui-selectedmenu, etc. Of course, none worked. So I had to go into the javascript of jquery.ui.selectmenu to see why it was not working, and that was what I found.

So I changed the original select control to uses relative position, and then everything works fine.

Windows Updates KB2468871 and KB2533523 Keep Reinstalling

On one of my workstations, Windows 7 kept re-installing two updates, KB2468871 and KB2533523, even though the installations were successful each time.

KB2468871 is titled "Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 on Windows...". More details on this update can be found here.
KB2533523 has the same title, and more details on this update can also be found at Microsoft's website.
Some folks on the internet suggested downloading the update packages and installing them manually. So I did that. It did not help. Some suggested that the update should be done in safe mode. That did not work.

It turned out that for me, the cause of the problem was that I had a .NET 4 beta component installed, and I forgot to remove it. I saw it when I decided I was going to reinstall .NET 4. So I removed it. Now these updates are no longer trying to re-install themselves, finally.