Spry.Effect ERR on web page

Good day,
I need some help plz. I am getting an annoying alert on my
web-site that I can't seem to clear. The alert is Spry.Effect ERR:
Element "apdiv1" not found. After clicking OK, another SpryEffects
alert pops up saying Spry.Effects.getstyleProp: [object error]. I
can't find any spry effect getstyle prop in the code or any object
that relies on getstyleProp. I'm new to the software (possibly very
evident in my question) but I can usually figure stuff out and I'm
totally confused. I should also mention that these alerts only pops
up when selecting links to the other web pages from the home page
only. You can navigate the rest of the web pages just fine and even
back to the home page, but for some reason when you go back to the
home page and select another pages link, you get the same alerts.
If you want to see exactly what I'm talking about, go to
www.barrenriverareasafespace.com.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
barrenriverareasafespace.com

Looking at Retrospective's code in test.html, I see that the
error is due to the fact he had a script block in his region:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--//
var testtab = new Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels("testtab", {
interval: 3000 });
testtab.start();
//-->
</script>
That executes immediately when the page is loaded, even
before the region is processed. To get rid of the problem, all that
has to be done is remove the script block and move its code into a
region observer so that it gets exectued any time the region markup
is re-generated. Here's how it should look:
<html>
<head>
<script src="SpryTabbedPanels.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryTabbedPanelsExtensions.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="xpath.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryData.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryEffects.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryTabbedPanels.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--//
var dsTest = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("test.xml",
"Test/TestOne");
dsTest.setColumnType("name", "html");
Spry.Data.Region.addObserver("FeatureBoxHome", {
onPostUpdate: function()
var testtab = new Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels("testtab", {
interval: 3000 });
testtab.start();
//-->
</script>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div id="FeatureBoxHome" spry:region="dsTest">
<div id="testtab" class="TabbedPanels">
<ul class="TabbedPanelsTabGroup">
<li spry:repeat="dsTest" class="TabbedPanelsTab"
tabindex="0">{name}</li>
</ul>
<div class="TabbedPanelsContentGroup">
<div spry:repeat="dsTest" class="TabbedPanelsContent"
style="display: block;"> <a
href="{feature_url}">{title}</a> <img src="{photo}">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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