Russel,

 

THanks for your reply.

Well wadda-ya-know...

 

I switched from EL...

<xp:repeat
                            id="repeat3"
                            value="#{vAuditDocs.EventDatas}"
                            var="vAuditDocsItems"
                            indexVar="vAuditDocsItemIndex"
                            rows="#{vAuditDocs.FIELDS_FOUND_COUNT}">

 

...to SSJS on the rows...
<xp:repeat
                            id="repeat3"
                            value="#{vAuditDocs.EventDatas}"
                            var="vAuditDocsItems"
                            indexVar="vAuditDocsItemIndex"
                            rows="#{javascript:vAuditDocs.FIELDS_FOUND_COUNT}">

 

...and it works!!!

 

As a side note, I wonder if it really even matters on the "rows", I guess it should be sort of hard coded, I suppose if my backing bean went AWOL and 1 table had 10,000 elements, my code above will just say, OK, keep going until end of table...which would be bad, a constant threshold  of 500, or whatever, would at least safe guard against this.