select only works with tabletools

I am trying to use the examples given but the only way I can get select to work is to use TableTools (which I want to move to buttons but having trouble there, but that will be another post).

If I take out the TableTools section then select doesn't work, and the buttons don't show either with or without TableTools.

sidenote: also, notice like 14 in the code below. I had to add a dummy value to my recordset, which I called myCheckbox. If I tried like the example "targets:0" I would get a tn\4 error for unknown parameter 0

          var tblNeedRA = $('#tblNeedRA').DataTable( {
              //jQueryUI: "true",
              //dom: "Tfrtp",
              lengthChange: false,
              autowidth: "false",
              ajax: "lib/getNeedRA.php",
              select: {
                  selector: 'td:first-child',
                  style: 'multi'
              },
              columns: [
                { orderable: false,
                  className: 'select-checkbox',
                  data: "myCheckbox"
                }
                ,{data: "CartonID"}
                ,{data: "RANumber"}
                ,{data: "OldRANumber"}
                ,{data: "OCNumber"}
                ,{data: "TrackingNumber"}
                ,{data: "ShipperName"}
                ,{data: "Qty"}
                ,{data: "LoadingDockReceiptDate"}
                ,{data: "AddedBy"}
              ],
              order: [[ 1, 'asc' ]],
"buttons": [
    {
        text: 'Select All',
        className: 'btn-success',
        action: function ( e, dt, node, config ) {
            alert( 'Button activated');
        }
    },
    {
        text: 'Deselect All',
        className: 'btn-success',
        action: function ( e, dt, node, config ) {
            alert( 'Button activated');
        }
    },
    {
        text: 'Refresh',
        className: 'btn-success',
        action: function ( e, dt, node, config ) {
            alert( 'Button activated');
        }
    }
]                              
          } );

          var tableTools = new $.fn.dataTable.TableTools( tblNeedRA, {
                    sRowSelect: "multi",
                } );
          $( tableTools.fnContainer() ).insertBefore( '#tblNeedRA' );