Fadein does not remain displayed after asp:Button OnClick event fired

Fadein does not remain displayed after asp:Button OnClick event fired

Page has (Telerik) RadScriptManager and a RadWindowManager for separate functionality. I have added a div to get a jQuery fade-in effect. Inside div is a user control MyUploader with ListBox for adding files and buttons for adding, removing and uploading (POST'ing) to UploadPost.aspx. When clicking buttons, the fade-in disappears, but I want it to remain on screen when adding and removing. The "Add" and "Remove" asp:Button's have OnClick handlers in the code-behind. I surrounded MyUploader control by <form id="frmUpload action="UploadPost.aspx">...</form> because I thought that would post on submit. No such luck.

Clicking the upload asp:Button behaves exactly as above. No post and the fade-in disappears. The ListBox manages to hang on to any files added, but it initially disappears. I don't think asp:UpdatePanel's are allowed with RadScriptManager, but is there some kind of UpdatePanel-equivalent to add around the MyUploader to make it async? Is async vs synchronous even my problem? I want the MyUploader control inside the faded-in div element to remain displayed until it's either closed manually (which works) or upload button is clicked (which should POST to uploadpost.aspx)

Thanks in advance!