UI Datepicker v3.0 fires js error when jQuery.noConflict() is used to prevent conflict with other libraries: $(this).addClass is not a function

The following test case fails with an obscure JQuery error message ("elem.style has no properties" on jquery.js:698):

<div id = "placeholder"></div>
<script type = "text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('<div class = "ui-slider-1">' + 
      '<div class = "ui-slider-handle"></div>' + 
  '</div>').slider().appendTo('#placeholder');
});
</script>

This attempts to create a new JQuery object from HTML, turn it into a slider, and then add it to the DOM. If I reverse the order of those calls, appending it into the DOM first and then turning it into a slider, it works fine:

<div id = "placeholder"></div>
<script type = "text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('<div class = "ui-slider-1">' + 
      '<div class = "ui-slider-handle"></div>' + 
  '</div>').appendTo('#placeholder').slider();
});
</script>

I'm not sure if you need to support this, since the workaround is simple. But if not, it should be clearly documented on the Slider's documentation page. It took me a while to track down because the error message is so inscrutable...

Here is a video of the bug ​http://screencast.com/t/zrdTeJ0i

This is a bug that was present in 2.7 and was reported in your comments as 90 and 91

First when I select a date in the first field I can pick an earlier date in the second field, when I should be restricted to using a later date.

Second when I go back to the first date field and open the date picker the date is not the month I picked. From what I can tell it opens the month based off of the day of the second month.

This has been confirmed on multiple computers in both FF 2.0.0.9 and IE 7