Setting Absolute and Relative Cell References

OK - new to Numbers, but am an advanced spreadsheet user.
I am trying to do a formula where I sum the product of numbers from two other tables. In one I take a row vector and in the other a column vector. Since I am replicating this sum of products across a table, both across and down, I need to set the absolute column in one (the row vector) and absolute row in the other (the column vector).
In Excel, it was easy - use command-T to cycle through the options until I got the $ to show up where I needed it.
In Numbers, I really like the drop down menu, and in reading the manual, I should be able to achieve the same using command-K. Right?
OK - here is my issue and why I need help.
When I select the first cell of my column vector, the drop down menu gives me access to all four options, but I can only select two that will stick (the others can be selected, but they revert back to the original). The two are "relative" - the default one; and "absolute column". I cannot pick the other options. When I use command-K, it also cycles through only those two options.
Am I doing something wrong, missing a setting or not catching a reference in the manual?
Or do I need to enter things manually by typing in cell references?
Hmmm - this is either a bug or something simple that I just cannot see the solution to...
Thanks,
Andrew

Sorry - had to figure out how to put images into this forum (still trying to see how they get displayed...)
Here is what I am doing:
Multiplying this (cell by cell)
Image: !http://public.me.com/andrewvignuzzi/Screen1.jpg!
by this:
Image: !http://public.me.com/andrewvignuzzi/Screen2.jpg!
to get this:
Image: !http://public.me.com/andrewvignuzzi/Screen3.jpg!
So, for each row vector and column vector I get one result in a cell in the third table.
(In this case, the answer is: 30,000,0000.09470*0.1099+00.3557... = 2,841,265; if you take the next row vector (one line down) and multiply it by the same column vector, you would get the 4,047,087 result in the last table, and so on..)
My problem was that when I used the title "Series E" instead of "E Series" in the Column Vector table and I tried to set it to "absolute row" - it would not work. When I changed it to "E Series" it did. Why? While I use "Series E" as a title elsewhere, I would assume that Numbers has an internal reference that includes the table name as part of the identifier so that there is no conflict.
Anyway - I seem to have solved it, but not in a way that makes sense to me and I sure would like to know what, if anything, I am doing wrong.
Thanks!
Andrew
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