jQuery.noConflict();
		
		// when the DOM is ready...
		jQuery(document).ready(function () {

		var $panels = jQuery('#slider .scrollContainer > div');
		var $container = jQuery('#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 = jQuery('#slider .scroll').css('overflow', 'hidden');

		// apply our left + right buttons
		$scroll
		  .before('<img class="scrollButtons left" src="/images/arrow_slider_left.png" />')
		  .after('<img class="scrollButtons right" src="/images/arrow_slider_right.png" />');

		// handle nav selection
		function selectNav() {
		  jQuery(this)
			.parents('ul:first')
			  .find('a')
				.removeClass('selected')
			  .end()
			.end()
			.addClass('selected');
		}

		jQuery('#slider .sliderNavigation').find('a').click(selectNav);

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

		if (window.location.hash) {
		  trigger({ id : window.location.hash.substr(1) });
		} else {
		  jQuery('ul.sliderNavigation 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,
		  
		  sliderNavigation: '.sliderNavigation 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 slidersliderNavigation.
		jQuery('#slider').serialScroll(scrollOptions);

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

		});