Object showing above when it should be below

I solved it!!... Well I tricked it. Since my plug is a grouped object, I can’t change states, so I exported it to an image. I place the image version in the location where the object would be dropped. I set the beginning state to hidden. Set a cue point at some point after the time the drop would happen to change back to normal. I moved the object visibility to go away at the same time as the cue point. So now, the dropped object is no longer part of the equation. It works beautifully.