Error: cboxElement missing settings object any click opens pop-up modal and/or page/menu link clicks do not respond

After installation
Drupal 7.20 + Firefox 19.0.2;
a left click anywhere in drupal screen (admin menu, main menu, white space, text areas) launches modal form/frame/overlay with ajax loader, which runs & runs & runs until user manually closes the overlay, and the user is returned to same page view (if a link/menu item is clicked, user receives pop-up modal form/box and when closed remains on same page; thus user cannot move to new page/view/admin option).

IF I first click the "Quick Edit" link, then the modal overlay pops up; BUT ..
THEN returns me to the inline edit form/fields view (mydomain/node/#edit)
AND if i tab (and do not click anywhere), I can move through the fields & edit & save may edits.
IF i click anywhere, I get eh pop-up, but closing it returns me to the #edit view.
IF i then click "Quick Edit", I am taken to the #view page
Any [Tab] to & [Enter] to select a link (to go to a new page) opens the modal form & closing it, returns me to the same page/node; the same as the left click scenario.
IF i log out, left click & menus work normally.

Firebug messages listed below.

IE 8 (8.0.6001.18702)
IE 8 behavior is similar, except there is no pop-up modal form, this action seems to fail; and left clicks on menu items simply do not respond to a click.
Left click on 'Quick Edit" show some content, defaulting to the content block, with the left nav bar & header disappearing.
Clicking a text field, then runs ajax loader and only the selected field is displayed along with the main menu (no sidebar or header content).
I have to use browser address bar to navigate back to page/node as sidebar & Quick Edit link is not visible.

IE 8 error messages listed below.

Chrome Version 24.0.1312.56 m
Quick check seems like Firefox.

Drupal 7.20 is a Fresh install (manual- not from cPanel installer on shared hosting @ hostgator.com- currently running a Drupal 7.16 site) with minimal content- but many contributed modules (all was well no log errors before install of Edit). Currently I am creating a base with all desired features & services installed & configured, to move current site content from the existing Drupal 7.16 site created on a drupalgardens base & moved to hostgator which proves to be a limited foundation for continued use.

Theme - Fusion Core + Fustion starer subtheme copied to create new custom subtheme (only a few base options selected- no departure/add-on to Fusion cosign at this point)

-I installed edit-7.x-1.0-alpha6
- applied patches

• core-field_api_single_field-1821906-28.patch
• 1902882-1.patch

to resolve errors

• - Undefined variable: items in edit_metadata_generator()
• - Undefined variable: instance_info in edit_metadata_generator()
• - Undefined index: editor in edit_metadata()

Cleared caches, ran update, checked & rebuilt permissions, ran cron & status report & dblog (as this tends clear & flush out error messages with any new module or configuration change).
- Reviewed ckEditor settings for possible configuration issues.
- dblog is now error free.

Firebug reports:
Error: cboxElement missing settings object
https:/my_domain.com/home/sites/all/libraries/colorbox/jquery.colorbox-min.js?mjnvy8

https://my-domain.com/home/sites/all/modules/edit/js/createjs/editingWid...
https://my_domain.com/home/sites/all/modules/jquery_update/replace/jquer...

IE 8 reports
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; chromeframe/24.0.1312.56; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Timestamp: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:57:30 UTC

IE 8
Message: 'console' is undefined
Line: 6 Char: 542 Code: 0
URI: https://my_domain.com/home/sites/all/libraries/colorbox/jquery.colorbox-...

Message: 'console' is undefined
Line: 6 Char: 542 Code: 0
URI: https://my_domain.com/home/sites/all/libraries/colorbox/jquery.colorbox-...

Message: 'console' is undefined
Line: 6 Char: 542 Code: 0
URI: https://my_domain.com/home/sites/all/libraries/colorbox/jquery.colorbox-...

Installed modules: sources of possible conflict (jQuery & inline edit related modules)

• jQuery Update 7.x-2.3-alpha1+0-dev
• jQuery Multi 7.x-1.0-beta1
• BeautyTips API 7.x-2.0-beta2
• elFinder 7.x-2.x-dev (as ckEditor file browser)
• Superfish 7.x-1.9-beta5
• jqGrid 7.x-1.3 (which will not render edit-able view in page view (but renders in views add.edit- still testing)
• Slickgrid 7.x-1.4 (which will only render frame not content w/edit-ability still testing)
• Views Supertable 7.x-1.1
• Colorbox 7.x-2.3
• Back To Top 7.x-1.3
• Navigate 7.x-1.0

Overlay module not installed

For now I will disable the module and reflect.

Thank you.. for your help and this great module!