Adding and Removing an Instance in LiveCycle Designer 8.2

Good Morning,
I am just beginning to use LiveCycle Designer 8.2 which was packaged with Adobe Acrobat 9.0 and I was just given a short timelined project for a form to be created for which I would like to include a + and - button to add and remove instances (it would add and remove student information as needed .... maybe only a list of data involving 5 students or for other teachers they may have 10 students, etc.) so I want them to be able to add and remove "instances" as needed. I have been working on this and looking at forums and clips and have not been able to successfully accomplish this task yet. I am wondering if anyone can give me some help? Thanks.
L Gardner

The best reference I've found is at
http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/11/11/instance-manager-object-reference/
Let me know if you need a sample

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