Spry Fade/Blind combo problem

Question

http://1g2s.arena-i.com/v2/spry-fadeBlind.html
Click Portfolio
Page I grabbed the code from : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/demos/effects/index.html
I'm having 2 issues
1 - The fadeBlind is going the full cycle--meaning it fades/blinds in then immediately out.
I want it to fadeBlind in and stop, then click Close to fadeBlind out and stop.
2 - I am only able to run the script once for some reason. Clicking portfolio again does nothing.
Script in effects.js:
Spry.Effect.FadeBlind = function(element, options)
    Spry.Effect.Cluster.call(this, options);
    this.name = 'FadeBlind';
    var duration = 1000;
    var doToggle = false;
    var from = 0;
    var to = 100;
    if (options)
        if (options.duration) duration = options.duration;
        if (options.toggle) doToggle = options.toggle;
        if (options.from) from = options.from;
        if (options.to) to = options.to;
    var options = {duration: duration, from: from, to: to, toggle: doToggle};
    var blind = new Spry.Effect.Blind(element, options);
    this.addParallelEffect(blind);
    var options = {duration: duration, from: from, to: to, toggle: doToggle};
    var fade = new Spry.Effect.Fade(element, options);
    this.addParallelEffect(fade);
Spry.Effect.FadeBlind.prototype = new Spry.Effect.Cluster();
Spry.Effect.FadeBlind.prototype.constructor = Spry.Effect.FadeBlind;
Link properties :
I've tried...
<a onclick="runEffect('FadeBlind', 'portfolio-nav-wrap', {duration:  400, from: '0', to: '100%', toggle: true});" href="#">
<a onclick="runEffect('FadeBlind', 'portfolio-nav-wrap', {duration:  400, from: '0', to: '100%', toggle: true}); return false;" href="#">
<a onclick="return runEffect('FadeBlind', 'portfolio-nav-wrap', {duration: 400, from: '0', to: '100%', toggle: true});" href="javascript:void();">
<a onclick="return runEffect('FadeBlind',  'portfolio-nav-wrap', {duration: 400, from: '0', to: '100%', toggle:  true}); return false;" href="javascript:void();">
None of the above changes anything. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I am using Vista, and Safari 4.0.5
I actually just figured out a workaround, by programatically setting display to 'block' for a div inside my 'container' div and it seemed to fix the problem.  However I am still curious as to why I was having this problem in the first place.  I've had several 'small' issues with the fade effect in different browsers, and luckily have figured out workarounds for both (the other issue was IE fading into the background color no matter what, which in the case of this site was brown instead of white and looked terrible....).  Thanks for looking at it!
Dan