ActionListener not firing within panelGrid (which is within a dataTable)

Question

I have a page with several forms on it:
<h:form>
... commandLinks here are working
</h:form>
<h:form>
<h:panelGrid>
...the actionListener here is firing
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>
<h:form>
... commandLinks here are working
</h:form>
<h:dataTable value="#{collection}" var="item">
<h:column>
<h:form>
<h:panelGrid>
...actionListeners here ARE NOT FIRING!
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
I've tried many things to get this to work. I've checked spelling at least 10 times. I've put the whole page in a single form. Nothing seems to work. The bean associated with the actionListener is not even being instantiated unless I include a value binding expression in the form somewhere, but even then the listener is still not fired.
So, please tell me if this is a known bug, or if it should work. I'm using JSF 1.1_1.
All the data and form fields get displayed correctly, just the actionListeners are not firing. I've tried both methods of triggering an actionListener. Neither work.
Why doesn't anyone from Sun post here anymore?????

Answer 1

Could you please copy/paste the whole jsp page?I had to abandon the previous page structure due to time constraints. But, now I am having the same problem on another page, pasted below. In this case, the contactInfoForm.populate actionListeners are not firing:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<jsp:root version="2.0"
  xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
  xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
  xmlns:x="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml"
  xmlns:fmt="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt"
  xmlns:t="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles"
  xmlns:htm="http://jsftutorials.net/htmLib">
  <f:subview id="content">
    <htm:div styleClass="heading">
      <htm:h2>
         <h:outputFormat value="#{msgs[heading]}">
            <f:param value="#{param.firstName}" />
            <f:param value="#{param.lastName}" />
         </h:outputFormat>
      </htm:h2>
    </htm:div>
    <htm:div styleClass="contentContainer">
    <h:messages/>
    <h:form>
      <h:commandLink id="backToPersons" styleClass="commandLink1" action="section.persons">
         <h:outputText value="#{msgs['persons.common.command.backToPersons']}"/>
      </h:commandLink>
    </h:form>
    <h:form style="padding-top: 10px">
      <h:commandLink id="newContactInfo" styleClass="commandLink1" action="/persons/contactInfo/newContactInfo">
         <h:outputText value="#{msgs['persons.person.contactInfo.list.command.new']}"/>
         <f:param name="personId" value="#{param.personId}"/>
         <f:param name="firstName" value="#{param.firstName}"/>
         <f:param name="lastName" value="#{param.lastName}"/>
      </h:commandLink>
    </h:form>
    <h:form>
       <h:dataTable value="#{contactInfoForm.contactInfoList}" var="contactInfo" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" styleClass="dataTable" headerClass="dataTableHeader" rendered="#{contactInfoForm.hasContactInfo}">
          <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header">
               <h:outputText value="#{msgs['persons.person.contactInfo.list.header.contactInfoId']}"/>
            </f:facet>
            <htm:center><h:outputText value="#{contactInfo.contactInfoId}" styleClass="dataTableContent"/></htm:center>
          </h:column>
          <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header">
               <h:outputText value="#{msgs['persons.person.contactInfo.list.header.description']}"/>
            </f:facet>
            <h:outputText value="#{contactInfo.description}" styleClass="dataTableContent"/>
          </h:column>
          <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header"></f:facet>
            <htm:center>
               <h:commandLink styleClass="commandLink1" action="/persons/contactInfo/viewContactInfo" actionListener="#{contactInfoForm.populate}">
                  <f:param name="firstName" value="#{param.firstName}"/>
                  <f:param name="lastName" value="#{param.lastName}"/>
                  <f:param name="contactInfoId" value="#{contactInfo.contactInfoId}"/>
                  <h:outputText value="#{msgs['command.view']}"/>
               </h:commandLink>
            </htm:center>
          </h:column>
          <h:column>
            <f:facet name="header"></f:facet>
            <htm:center>
               <h:commandLink styleClass="commandLink1" action="/persons/contactInfo/editContactInfo" actionListener="#{contactInfoForm.populate}">
                  <f:param name="firstName" value="#{param.firstName}"/>
                  <f:param name="lastName" value="#{param.lastName}"/>
                  <f:param name="contactInfoId" value="#{contactInfo.contactInfoId}"/>
                  <h:outputText value="#{msgs['command.edit']}"/>
               </h:commandLink>
            </htm:center>
          </h:column>
       </h:dataTable>
       <h:outputText value="#{msgs['persons.person.contactInfo.list.noRecords']}" styleClass="copy2" rendered="#{not contactInfoForm.hasContactInfo}"/>
    </h:form>
    </htm:div>
  </f:subview>
</jsp:root>