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Found my own solution. I stopped using easylist or any other list structures, and instead made some of my own counters.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[letterpaper,margin=0.75in]{geometry}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{calc}

\newcounter{firstcount}
\newcounter ...

I'm trying to do a complex layout that I've yet to find a good solution for. A significant amount of my text is an outline with multiple levels, which in the past I have used easylist for. In my next project, though, I have a lot of one-line references that I want to run to the right of the outline ...