As you wish… however – thank you – for pointing me in the right direction.
A day later….
Now that i have been pointed in the right direction and done more research on autocomplete, it would be wrong for me to withhold what i've learned since the question pops up anyway.
. first, the autocomplete functionality i posted two posts above is wrong. Autocomplete, as per the jquery docs, functions as follows:
Datamodel
The autocomplete requires an array of objects (maps), containing two required properties:
- A label property to display in the autocomplete list (“John Doe “).
- this will be displayed as plain-text
- A value property that ends up in the input field once selected (“john@doe.com”);
- if undefined, same as label
- this must be plain-text (no markup)
Each object can have any amount of additional data associated, usually for filling in related field. This could include:
- an id property: a primary key in a database (65313, “FIN57984GFGH69FA”)
- an index to map to an object (0, 1, …, n)
- a shorthand like a country or province value ('US', 'NY')
If only an array of strings is provided, the widget will normalize that to an array of objects, using each string as both label and value. If only label is provided, its also used as value, and the other way round.
This data must be provided by the source-option.
The names in the name/value pair properties are “label” and “value“.
Always this is not a question for this forum
I disagree.
And letting me know the problem is not related to jqgrid is a generous and appropreate answer allowing me move on in the right direction – i appreciate it! 
However, if you'd rather people stop asking, make a searchable sticky clairifying the issue once and for all.
or
You could add a note to the datainit property description indicating support for jquery autocomplete is not offered, however, the jquery autocomplete functions in the following manner when used with jqgrid:
Support for jquery autocomplete is not offered, however, the jquery autocomplete functions in the following manner when used with jqgrid:
. autocomplete posts the partial label string using the “term” parameter on every keystroke until either no more query's are delivered from the database table or a label is selected from the drop down menu.
. autocomplete displays the label of a value/label pair list and delivers the selected label into postdata array.
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