Shortly after hitting publish on my last blog post, I received an email from Lohith (https://about.me/kashyapa), a Technical Evangelist with Telerik in India.  He had seen my post and pointed me to the documentation that allows for a much easier method of accomplishing this task.  This is yet another example of why Telerik is such an awesome company and I am more than happy to hand over my money for a superb set of development components.