[EMAIL PROTECTED] karl, that did it! your page http://www.learningjquery.com/2007/09/animated-scrolling-with-jquery-12 is very informative, too!
jquery is truly awesome. i never look back to writing javascript w/out a library like this (and when i do i get that sinking feeling--- javascript is close to fundamentally broken for a number of reasons even WITH a good library). is anyone interested in updating the jquery docs for this? i created an account and hit 'edit' on the page that has the documentation for $ ().animate, but the wiki code looks daunting to me. is there a jquery cookbook or something similar, some place where you can quickly drop your commented solutions for posterity to read? _wolf