New Comment on "$().SPServices.SPRequireUnique"

I am trying to get SPRequireUnique to work on a page with a customized Data Form Web Part without success. Any ideas on that? To further complicate things, on the same page I am using SPServices 0.7.2 and jQuery 1.8.3 to prefill fields based on the current user, and I am unable to get the two processes to work with the required jQuery and SPServices versions for each. I would appreciate any assistance in helping troubleshoot and finding a solution.