questions: ajax load of named anchors, and jquery bbq plugin for drupal 6

hi folx -
i've needed to transform a 1000+ page document into a drupal site with a reasonably usable navigation structure. the text of the table of contents alone is about 300kb, so i decided to load sections as needed via ajax. gbillings' excellent step-by-step comment helped me set up a two column panel where links in the right column load lists of articles in a div tag in the right column. this works great but i have two remaining features that i can't seem to solve despite many hours of research:
1. linking to named anchors. i want to load a page in the scrollable div with its url, and then have it scroll down to a named anchor. i've looked at the LocalScroll and ScrollTo jquery plugins, and have considered iframes, but have such a basic knowledge of javascript that i can't seem to get it. any thoughts? is the javascript on the primary page with the scrollable div unaware of the anchors on the new dynamically loaded content?
2. url links to specific states. i would like to have permanent links to specific sections of the table of contents. i need to pass info in the url about which content should be loaded in the scrollable div. has anyone had experience trying to get a version of the jquery bbq plugin running on drupal 6?
thanks! i figured it would be worth posting a little of my experience since similar testimonials have been helpful to me.
-r