Stateless form problems

Stateless form problems

My application:
I have a form where data is stored, including several radio fields with yes/no/others options.  There is an employee name and a date field.

I then have a stateless form that fetches data and populates the stateless form based on the contents of the primary form.  This is where the 2 issues come in:

1) It populates the yes/no, but will not populate the others option - it doesn't select radio the circle or put the right data in. 

2) If the fetch returns no data (which is to be expected, this is supposed to be an add/update scenario), I can't figure out how to make my update button script work.  If the fetch returns data, it updates fine.  But I can't figure out the condition, something like 'if fetched collection is null, add record, else update'  How can I put an appropriate If statement in there?

Thanks for any thoughts...