DATE_POPUP BUG

DATE_POPUP works perfectly fine if you just have one date that you want to use it for, but it generates the code incorrectly for more than one.
For example, I have PL/SQL generating text fields and if the value of the text field is in DATE format, it will insert this line:
HTMLDB_ITEM.DATE_POPUP( 2, NULL, l_columnValue, 'DD-MON-YY' )
If there is only one DATE_POPUP, the source generated is correct:
opener.document.forms[0].f02.value = x;
But if there are two, HTMLDB generates incorrect source for each popup:
opener.document.forms[0].f02[].value = x;
Because it never specifies an index, clicking a date will not set the field to the proper date, nor will it closed. Let me know if anyone has a solution for this problem or if there will be a bug fix some time in the near future. Thanks.

I have an external package that gets called with certain parameters. This is the relevant code:
FOR lbl IN lbl_cursor( pFN_ID )
LOOP
IF (lbl_cursor%rowcount = 1) AND pUPDATE = false THEN
htp.p( l_columnValue );
htp.p( HTMLDB_ITEM.HIDDEN( 1, l_columnValue ) );
ELSIF pUPDATE = false THEN
IF lbl.FNP_DB_TYPE = 'DATE' THEN
htp.p( HTMLDB_ITEM.DATE_POPUP( 2, NULL, l_columnValue, 'DD-MON-YY' ) );
ELSE
htp.p( HTMLDB_ITEM.TEXT( 1, l_columnValue ) );
END IF;
END IF;
END LOOP;
Everything is being generated correctly visually and it works perfectly fine when there is only one DATE_POPUP. The problem only occurs when there are two or more DATE_POPUPs.

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