Lightbox 2 is breaking my sType: 'alt-string'

Hello! I'm using the Lightbox 2 and Datatables module for Drupal 6 and am having an issue. I'm using the Lightbox 2 module to pop a modal on click for one of my Datatables entries. Everything is working fine, except that my sType: 'alt-string' code is no longer working. So if I try to search the images in the table, the code to use the alt tag as the data to search is no longer working. When I disable the field with the that triggers the lightbox, it's back to working again.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your time!