Using contextMenu on a dataTable inside a tab - jsf

I'm trying to add a contextMenu to a dataTable contained inside a tab. I have been able to get the menu to show up on a dataTable which is not inside a tab and was also to get it to show up on the entire tab...but not specifically on the dataTable.
I've tried several different references in the 'for' attribute of the contextMenu...some blow up, some do not but the menu doesn't show up on right-click.
I'm using PrimeFaces 4.0. Any suggestions?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<h:head></h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form id="someForm">
<p:tabView id="tv" var="tb" value="#{TempBeans.tabs}">
<p:ajax event="tabClose" listener="#{TempBeans.tabClose}"
update="#form" />
<p:tab id="tempTab" title="#{tb.name}" closable="true">
<p:dataTable id="dTable" var="d" value="#{tb.dtbs}">
<p:column id="column1" headerText="name">
<h:outputText value="#{d.name}" />
</p:column>
<p:column id="column2" headerText="id">
<h:outputText value="#{d.id}" />
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
</p:tab>
</p:tabView>
<p:contextMenu for=":someForm:tv:dTable">
<p:menuitem value="TableView" update="#form" icon="ui-icon-search" />
<p:menuitem value="TableDelete" update="#form" icon="ui-icon-close" />
</p:contextMenu>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>

Well, I was able to get the context menu to appear by changing the table to be selectable...which is sort of what I wanted anyway. However, now I have another problem...If I make the selectionMode "multiple" and use ctrl-clicks to select rows it seems to register the last right-click as a single click.
click one row
ctrl-click second row
ctrl-click third row
right-click one of the rows...deselects other rows
So it seems I would have to force my users to:
click one row
ctrl-click second row
ctrl-right-click third row
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!! Deal-breaker...looks like I'm going back to prehistoric ui times and implementing multiple selection with checkboxes.
Please someone tell me I'm wrong and there's a simple way to make it not behave like this.
Anyway, here is how I eventually managed to get a contextMenu to show up:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<h:head></h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form id="someForm">
<p:tabView id="tv" var="tb" value="#{TempBeans.tabs}">
<p:ajax event="tabClose" listener="#{TempBeans.tabClose}" update="#form" />
<p:tab id="tempTab" title="#{tb.name}" closable="true">
<p:dataTable id="dTable" var="d" value="#{tb.dtbs}" selection="#{tb.selectedDTBs}" selectionMode="multiple" rowKey="#{d.name}">
<p:column id="column1" headerText="name">
<h:outputText value="#{d.name}" />
</p:column>
<p:column id="column2" headerText="id">
<h:outputText value="#{d.id}" />
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
<p:contextMenu id="cMenuId" for="dTable">
<p:menuitem value="TableView" update="#form" icon="ui-icon-search" />
<p:menuitem value="TableDelete" update="#form" icon="ui-icon-close" />
</p:contextMenu>
</p:tab>
</p:tabView>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>

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