Thanks for the info. I'm definitely NOT tech-savvy. I've already spent close to 100 hours on this thing and I already had to "dumb down" my original concept.
So... It's not ideal, but I guess I'll have them find each of the 5 items in sequence. So the potential zones for item 1 will open up.... and then when they find that item, the zones for item 2 will appear and the zones for 1 disappear, etc etc.
That should be the easiest way because I can just add that code pretty quickly without altering too many of my If-then statements.
Thanks again.