diff --git a/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.html b/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.html
index 744f9a73..aa2d74b7 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.html	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.html	
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ body {
 		0 -50px 10px -50px gray inset;
 }
 
+.item.path .text:before {
+	content: "/";
+}
+
+
 /*
 .browse-widget .list .item .button.toggle-collapse {
 	float: left;
@@ -159,7 +164,10 @@ requirejs([
 
 	// XXX split this into several dialogues, show each and then combine...
 	dialog = browser.Browser(function(make){
-		make('path', {id:'selected_path'})
+		make('path', {
+			id:'selected_path',
+			cls: 'path',
+		})
 		make.Separator()
 
 		make(['list', 'of', 'text'])
@@ -243,7 +251,7 @@ requirejs([
 		// XXX EXPEREMENT -- need to wrap this into partial .update(..)
 		.focus(function(){
 			var e = this.get({id: 'selected_path'})
-			e.value = this.path 
+			e.value = this.pathArray
 			this.renderItem(e) })
 
 	dialog.container = $('.container').first()[0]
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.js b/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.js
index 696743d0..5053ceee 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse2.js	
@@ -977,14 +977,17 @@ var BaseBrowserPrototype = {
 	// XXX need to normalizePath(..)
 	// 		...array .value is not compliant with POLS
 	get path(){
-		return this.__items != null ?
-			this.get('focused', 
-				function(e, i, p){ return p.join('/') }) 
-			// XXX do we use .options.path???
-			: (this.options || {}).path },
+		return (this.pathArray || []).join('/') },
 	set path(value){
 		this.load(value) },
-
+	// XXX
+	get pathArray(){
+		return this.__items != null ?
+			this.get('focused', 
+				function(e, i, p){ return p }) 
+			// XXX do we use .options.path???
+			// XXX is this an array???
+			: (this.options || {}).path },
 
 	// Length...
 	//
@@ -3168,8 +3171,9 @@ var HTMLItemPrototype = {
 	// 		the new .dom value is replaced correctly but it is detached, 
 	// 		thus we see no change...
 	set elem(value){
-		this.dom 
-			&& this.elem.replaceWith(value) },
+		this.dom ?
+			this.elem.replaceWith(value)
+			: (this.dom = value)},
 }
 
 var HTMLItem = 
@@ -4099,6 +4103,7 @@ var HTMLBrowserPrototype = {
 					button_keys[k].click() } })
 		
 		item.dom = elem
+		//item.elem = elem
 
 		return elem 
 	},