Basically, when either the document is clicked on or another multiselect is opened, I need to fire the "close" event for all open mulitselects.  I cannot assume that all selects are multiselects, so $("select[multiple]").multiselect("close"); isn't viable.  Does the widget factory internally store references to other instances?  Is there an easy way to retrieve all these instances, sans the one being opened?  Is my understanding of all this completely skewed?

thanks in advanced.