Index: lib/yui/src/blocks/js/blockregion.js
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--- lib/yui/src/blocks/js/blockregion.js	(revision 35ec6ab816b6fc289504792a81330cf5f0482f40)
+++ lib/yui/src/blocks/js/blockregion.js	(revision )
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
         if (!node) {
             Y.log('block region known about but no HTML structure found for it. Guessing structure.', 'warn');
             this.create_and_add_node();
+            node = this.get('node');
         }
         var body = Y.one('body'),
             hasblocks = node.all('.'+CSS.BLOCK).size() > 0,
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