Dynamnically inserted (AJAX'ed) jcarousel items do not retain view customizations made by other modules

From what I know about Drupal and the platform I'm working on, I have 2 options: 1) set the view to not use ajax and load all items up front (not great for bandwidth usage) 2) patch jCarousel to retain view modifications done by other modules, or find another solution to this issue.

I've attached my patch to this comment, which pursues option #2 - patching the jCarousel module. If another solution is available, please let me know.

Overview of patch

Most of the time, from what I can tell, most view modifications are done to 2 arrays:

$view->display_handler->display->display_options

and

$view->display_handler->options

In all cases I've encountered, you want parity between both arrays. (I.E. if I make a change in one array, it should also be applied to the other)

What this patch does is allow module developers to append a new array to the view display containing their custom view options. The new array is jcarousel_ajax_custom_view_options.

Example:

I want custom image style for my marquee based on some conditional. I modify the view display options as I normally, would, then copy the customization to a new jcarousel_ajax_custom_view_options.

function custom_module_render($subtype, $conf, $args, $contexts) {
  $view = views_get_view('myView');
  $display_id = 'marquee';

  // jcarousel custom view options array
  $view_changes = array();

  if ($view && $view->access($display_id)) {

  	//random conditional
  	if ($foo == True) {
  		$image_style = 'newStyle_100x300';
  		
  		// alter the view
  		$view->display[$display_id]->display_options['fields']['field_images']['settings']['image_style'] = $image_style;
  		$view->display[$display_id]->handler->options['fields']['field_images']['settings']['image_style'] = $image_style;

  		// copy change in new array
  		$view_changes['fields']['field_images']['settings']['image_style'] = $image_style;

  		// apply change to jcarousel_ajax_custom_view_options
  		$view->display[$display_id]->jcarousel_ajax_custom_view_options = $customjCarouselAjaxViewSettings;
  	}
  }
}

When this is done, the patched jCarousel module will check for this array. If it exists, it'll add it to the 'view_options' settings object in the carousel's javascript settings. When an item is requested over AJAX, those custom view settings are passed along in the request, parsed by `jcarousel_views_ajax()`, and merged into the view's display settings (both `display_options` and `handler->options`).

Although this solution works for me, it doesn't seem like the best solution. If you guys have any other suggestions, please let me know.