Dialogs in CKEditor coming up disabled behind editor dialog

I have the CKEditor tool replacing a div that is not visible until the user selects a menu option on my page to edit an html field. When the menu option is selected, the div containing the editor pops up as a 'dialog window' and shades/disables the main window content. This works fine, but if the user then selects the link or image toolbar item in the CKEditor, the dialog for those comes up behind my editor dialog (wrong z-order?) and is disabled.

Should I be setting some sort of window, 'parent', or z-order property when I do the CKEditor.replace call so that it knows that it's contained in a dialog versus a full browser window? It seems like anyone who is using the CKEditor in a popup dialog would have run into this and have answer. Thanks in advance for any help that anybody can provide.