cancelling sort after droppable drop

cancelling sort after droppable drop


I have a div that is droppable and immediately below it a list that is
sortable. If I drag a list-item from the list and drop it into the
droppable div, the list still 'thinks' I am sorting it to the top of
the list, even if the pointer is not within the list (I am using a
tolerance of 'pointer'). As a result, my drop event gets called
followed by the update event and the list item is placed at the top of
the sortable list, which I don't want.
Here is my setup code:
$('.sortcontainer').sortable({
    axis: 'y',
    connectWith: ['.sortcontainer'],
    opacity: 0.5,
    tolerance: 'pointer',
    placeholder:'placeholder',
    start: sortStart,
    stop: sortStop,
    out: sortOut,
    over: sortOver,
    update: sortUpdate
});
$('.dropobject).droppable({
    accept: '.sortcontainerobj',
    hoverClass: 'drophover',
    //drop: dropItem,
    start: sortStart,
    stop: sortStop,
    out: sortOut,
    over: sortOver,
    update: sortUpdate
});
Thanks for any help!