Need help fixing ColdFusion/JQuery based drag n' drop reordering of items: ColdFusion, JQuery, Javascript, XHTML, CSS

Need help fixing ColdFusion/JQuery based drag n' drop reordering of items

I'm trying to get a ColdFusion/JQuery based example of drag n' drop reordering of items working, but am encountering some difficulty. A non-working example (and the underlying source code) can be viewed at the following url:

http://www.carolinegleason.com/test.cfm?add=true&cat=men&ID=18&thumb

Additionally -- the non-rendered source code is attached (see code snippet below)

Can anywhere here identify specifically why my list items aren't drag n' droppable?

Thanks,
- Yvan

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 
<html>
 
<head>
 
<title>TITLE</title>
 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 
<cfajaxproxy cfc="reorder" jsclassname="myProxy">  
 
<link type="text/css" href="admin/css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" />
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="admin/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="admin/js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js"></script>
 
<script type="text/javascript">
// this creates an instance of the js proxy to cfc which we created with cfajaxproxy //
var p = new myProxy();
 
// this jQuery function executes after page DOM is loaded
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("ul.items").disableSelection(); // this disables selection of item name text. not necessary, but a nice touch when you use Sortable
  var $items = $("ul.menuitems"); // this is jQuery object of our items' container
  initSortablesArray($items, 'li', '#tabs', 'y', 'updateItemsOrder'); //initialize Sortable for our items container
});
 
// this function creates the Sortable for items
var initSortablesArray = function($arrEl, sortItems, sortContainer, sortAxis, fnCallback) {
  $arrEl.each(function() {
    var $el = $(this);
    $el.sortable({
      items: sortItems, // element to be dragged, <li> in this example
      containment: sortContainer, // element dragging is contained to, div id="tabs" in this example
      axis: sortAxis, // axis to allow dragging along, Y in this example
      update: function(event, ui){ // this function fires after an item changes its position/order after drag
        var arrOrder = $el.sortable('toArray'); //serialize the items into array
        console.log(arrOrder); //debug: will display the serialized array of item in Firebug console - remove when everything is working
        var fnToExecute = fnCallback+"('"+arrOrder+"')";
        setTimeout(fnToExecute, 0); //execute callback fucntion (updateItemsOrder in this example)
      }
    });
  });
};
 
/*
this function is called on update event in Sortable list.
i use cfajaxproxy to create a js proxy to a remote cfc function which updates the items order in the db.
see the CFC section above for the function code.
*/
var updateItemsOrder = function(arrOrder) {
  p.setCallbackHandler(updateOrderCB); //js function to execute after items order is updated in db
  p.setErrorHandler(jsProxyError);//js function to execute on cfc/proxy error
  p.updateOrder(arrOrder);// cfc function to execute
};
 
//success handler
var updateOrderCB = function(result) {
  if(result) {
    alert("Items order updated!");//change to whatever you want to do after items order has been updated
  } else {
    jsProxyError('n/a', 'Could not update items order...');// change to whatever else you want to do on error in updating items order
  }
};
 
// error handler
var jsProxyError = function(code, msg) {
  alert("ERROR: "+msg+" (err code: "+code+")");//change to whatever you do to show errors
};
</script>
 
</head>
 
<body>    
 
<!--- QUERY DATABASE TO RETRIEVE PHOTOS //--->
          
<cfquery datasource="#application.datasource#" name="get_photos">
    SELECT * 
    FROM photos  
    WHERE category = 'men' AND request_ID = #URL.ID# 
    ORDER BY priority ASC
</cfquery>        
 
<!--- QUERY DATABASE TO RETRIEVE PHOTOS //--->  
 
<cfset i = 1>
          	
<cfset p = 1> 
 
<h1>RE-ORDER ITEMS</h1>
            
<div id="tabs">
            
	<ul class="items">
			
	<cfoutput query="get_photos">
			
		<li id="i_#ID#"><img src="photos/tn_#photo#" border="0"></li>
            
		<cfset i = i + 1>
            
		<cfif currentrow MOD 2 EQ 0>
                
            <cfset p = p + 1>
                
        </cfif>
            
	</cfoutput>
            
</ul>
            
</div>  
 
</body>
</html>
 
------------------------- BEGIN CONTENTS of reorder.cfc ----------------------
 
 
<cffunction name="updateOrder" access="remote" returntype="boolean" output="no">
<cfargument name="items_order" required="yes" type="any">
<cfscript>
var itemsorder = listtoarray(trim(arguments.items_order));// create local array from received list of element IDs
var qUpdateOrder = "";//create a local var for update query
var x = 0;// this local var will be the cfloop index, which is also the new ordinal of each item
var itemid = 0;//local var for item's id
var result = true;// function result
</cfscript>
<cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(itemsorder)#" index="x">
  <!--- our items in the page are <li> elements with unique IDs like i_#item_id#, thus to extract the item's id from received list of ordered items we need to parse each list element and get the part after _ - listlast() cf function makes it very easy. --->
  <cfset itemid = listlast(trim(itemsorder[x]), "_")>
  <cftry>
    <cfquery name="qUpdateOrder" datasource="#application.datasource#">
    	UPDATE photos
    	SET priority = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_smallint" value="#x#">
    	WHERE ID = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer" value="#itemid#">
    </cfquery>
    <cfcatch>
      <cfset result = false>
    </cfcatch>
  </cftry>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn result />
</cffunction>

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