Okay, I discovered that the instructions contained on their support site (
http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/29351/) are faulty. They ask you to delete the mapped parent to move the children up a level. I followed the instructions contained in this webcast instead:
http://support.smartbear.com/screencasts/testcomplete/reliable-tests-for-dynamic-objects/This webcast asks you to drag the child item (on the Mapped Objects section, not aliases) up to the first stable level, then check the Extended Find box. See the attached photo for what that ultimately looked like for me.
After doing this, I had to re-record a couple sections of my tests with direct references to the objects, but the extended find worked like a charm once I had done that and it wasn't looking for the dynamic parent anymore.
