jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Looking for some help with multiselect editing. One caveat is that I am using the grid "locally" then submitting all edited rows to the db server upon a user confirmation.

What I am experiencing is that when I select multiple rows then chose the form edit icon I am given "some" collection of rows to cycle through which is great except that this collection seems to start with the forst row selected and then contain all the rest of the rows in the grid (not just those selected) but that is not my main issue. What the main issue for me is that as I edit each row and move on, the edits are NOT saved back to the grid. Only the first row in the selection seems to get persisted.

I suppose I could code up a custom button and my own modal form but I would really like to take advantage of what is already there.

Michael