jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

I have spent an excruciating amount of time looking through the forums trying to find an answer to my problem.

The last guy who posted the same probl;em did not get any help, maybe I will have better luck:

Here is the error:  var m=b.jgrid.formatter.date.monthName...]!==undefined)i[f[c].toLowerCase()]=

The date data coming back in the array is per Java is MM/dd/yyyy which is 01/31/2010 format.

The colModel format is as follows:

{sortable:true, name:'requestDate', index:'requestDate', width:90, sorttype:'date', datefmt:'m/d/Y'},

Over the course of 2 days of testing nothing has worked.

1) I tried chaning the date format coming back to Y-m-d format per the grid.

I got the data in Y-m-d format, but still would nto sort as a date.

2) tried #1 and then

$("#list").jqGrid('setColProp','requestDate',{sorttype:'date', formatter:'date', datefmt: 'm/d/Y'});

to see if my date would change format, and then sort, but this gave me another formatter undefined issue.

3) I tried mm/dd/yyyy in the colModel and that did not work.

I've tried a dozen other things I saw on here, and none of them worked.

Any help would be much greatly appreciated. 

Thanks!

3) I tried adding code so that: