Originally posted by Paul Yule:
Does this mean that once the .get() is used you would need to wrap it again in order to use further jQuery.
Yes. Once you have a reference to an element, you'd need to wrap it again to use any wrapper methods. So use the method that returns whichever you want: an element, or a slice of the wrapped set.
If you have a wrapped set of JQuery DOM objects and you assign them to a var does it act similarly as the get() automagically?
No. Assigning a reference to a wrapped set to a var simply records the reference to the wrapped set just as with any other JavaScript object.