// bind the navigation clicks to update the selected nav:
		$('#slider .navigation').find('a').click(selectNav);

		// handle nav selection - lots of nice chaining :-)
		function selectNav() {
			$(this)
			    .parents('.navigation') // ul:first find the first UL parent
			    .find('a') // find all the A elements
			    // .removeClass('selected') // remove from all
			    // .find('a')
			    .removeClass('selected')
			    .end() // go back to all A elements
			    .end() // go back to 'this' element
			    .addClass('selected');
		}

		function trigger(data) {
		  // within the .navigation element, find the A element
		  // whose href ends with ID ($= is ends with)
		  var el = $('#slider .navigation').find('a[href$="' + data.id + '"]').get(0);
  
  		// we're passing the actual element, and not the jQuery instance.
		selectNav.call(el);
		}

		if (window.location.hash) {
			trigger({ id : window.location.hash.substr(1)});
		} else {
			$('#slider .navigation a:first').click();
		}

		function initScroll() {

			var $panels = $('#slider .scrollContainer > div');
			var $container = $('#slider .scrollContainer');

			// if false, we'll float all the panels left and fix the width 
			// of the container
			var horizontal = true;

			// float the panels left if we're going horizontal
			if (horizontal) {
				 $panels.css({
				    'float' : 'left',
				    'position' : 'relative' // IE fix to ensure overflow is hidden
				  });
  
				  // calculate a new width for the container (so it holds all panels)
				  $container.css('width', $panels[0].offsetWidth * $panels.length);
			}

			// collect the scroll object, at the same time apply the hidden overflow
			// to remove the default scrollbars that will appear
			var $scroll = $('#slider .scroll').css('overflow', 'hidden');

			// apply our left + right buttons
			/**$scroll
			  .before('<img class="scrollButtons left" src="images/scroll_left.png" />')
			  .after('<img class="scrollButtons right" src="images/scroll_right.png" />');
			*/
			// handle nav selection
			function selectNav() {
				$(this)
				.parents('.navigation')
				.find('a')
			  	.removeClass('selected')
				.end()
				.end()
				.addClass('selected');
			}

			$('#slider .navigation').find('a').click(selectNav);

			// go find the navigation link that has this target and select the nav
			function trigger(data) {
				var el = $('#slider .navigation').find('a[href$="' + data.id + '"]').get(0);
				selectNav.call(el);
			}

			if (window.location.hash) {
				trigger({ id : window.location.hash.substr(1) });
			} else {
				$('ul.navigation a:first').click();
			}

			// offset is used to move to *exactly* the right place, since I'm using
			// padding on my example, I need to subtract the amount of padding to
			// the offset.  Try removing this to get a good idea of the effect
			var offset = parseInt((horizontal ? 
			  $container.css('paddingTop') : 
			  $container.css('paddingLeft')) 
			  || 0) * -1;


			var scrollOptions = {
				  target: $scroll, // the element that has the overflow
  
				  // can be a selector which will be relative to the target
				  items: $panels,
  
  				navigation: '.navigation a',
  
  				// selectors are NOT relative to document, i.e. make sure they're unique
				 // prev: 'img.left', 
				 // next: 'img.right',
  
  				// allow the scroll effect to run both directions
				  axis: 'xy',
  
				  onAfter: trigger, // our final callback
  
				  offset: offset,
  
  				// duration of the sliding effect
				  duration: 500,
  
  				// easing - can be used with the easing plugin: 
				  // http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
				  easing: 'swing'
			};

			// apply serialScroll to the slider - we chose this plugin because it 
			// supports// the indexed next and previous scroll along with hooking 
			// in to our navigation.
			$('#slider').serialScroll(scrollOptions);

			// now apply localScroll to hook any other arbitrary links to trigger 
			// the effect
			$.localScroll(scrollOptions);

			// finally, if the URL has a hash, move the slider in to position, 
			// setting the duration to 1 because I don't want it to scroll in the
			// very first page load.  We don't always need this, but it ensures
			// the positioning is absolutely spot on when the pages loads.
			scrollOptions.duration = 1;
			$.localScroll.hash(scrollOptions);
		}

		addLoadEvent(initScroll);