One would think that the 'stop' option for Sortables would fire after sorting has completed AND the cloned helper class has deleted itself - so it is possible to return the list id's as they exist at completion.

For instance, if I have a list with id's...

<li id='i1'>1</li> <li id='i2'>2</li> <li id='i3'>3</li> <li id='i4'>4</li>

And I drag 4 to position 2 I will get (reported via stop using a callback function to examine what's happening)...

<li id='i1'>1</li> <li id='i4' style='visibility: hidden;'>4</li> <li id='i2'>2</li> <li id='i3'>3</li> <li id='i4' class='ui-sortable-helper'>4</li>

And then, only when it has truly completed executing will I get...

<li id='i1'>1</li> <li id='i4' style=>4</li> <li id='i2'>2</li> <li id='i3'>3</li>

Thanks