Jason, I think I cracked it..in my original code I was using relative links so I deleted all the code and then redone it using absolute links to the products page and including the database bindings to reference the products from the database. But without your indication of the action="like" section of the code I dont think It would have worked totally until I placed in the ../../ before the like or recommend (depending what i was using). so I believe thats the reason for when the social buttons dont work on framework builder type files that are nested in other directories. perhaps this is something that can be added to the next release of your products? since the code would work in top level .php files (just not nested files when using framework builder) Im just uploading fresh files to do a final test to make sure it all works :)
Chris