i feel sort of silly, but for whatever reason, with the syntax, which seems from my research to be correct, i can only get pre and post looping to work with one or the other, not both.
if i use:
loopIn(type=”continue”);
loopOut(type=”continue”)
then it seems to ignore the loopIn and if i do it in the reverse order, it ignores the loopOut. in other words, it always ignores the first argument and runs the second.