My first attempt at upgrading to 1.4.2 and ui 1.8rc3 was on a page with floatobject-1.4.

Floatobject barfs here:

1.   17     var offset = this.jqObj.offset();
     18     this.currentX = offset.left;
     19     this.currentY = offset.top;
   
   
   

complaining offset is NULL on line 18

If you hard code this.Current[XY] to zero,  it no longer barfs.  Not saying this is a work around or fix, only a clue as to what's gone wrong.  I still haven't gotten the UI stuff to work under 1.4.2 & 1.8, once I do I'll poke around some more.

Assuming the offset API hasn't changed,  I think UI 1.8 is now leaving the qQuery object in a state not seen before by the developer of floatobject-1.4.  Anybody have a clue?  Is this simply a floatobject problem?

The page has only UI accordions if that helps,  and they aren't working