thanks. the issue was not the points showing up in the correct spot. looking at the layers on the map, those all look correct. the problem was the info window not actually appearing at the correct location in relation to the cursor click event.
the solution i posted above 'appears' to fix the problem, however, i am not sure that it is actually working, since today i cannot seem to pick up any results from my attempts to run task.IdentifyTask.
heh. i will keep plugging away at this and see what turns up. now that you have brought this back to my attention, i think it may be the same situation that i had with the info window.