I give up. It was a dumb idea. Done.
The AJAX for the Book module was just not a good idea. I realized this right after I started getting it to work. Considering that most of my pages are going to be cached for anonymous viewers, why was I going to hit a dynamic page to retrieve a bit of cached data, when I could just get the whole page from cache? Nonsense, I tells you, nonsense. Why bother having hierarchal pages if they’re just going to loaded into one page? Idiocy, that’s why. Why break the back button on the browser for silly fade effects? Because I’m a moron. Also everytime the content section was re-written, Firefox would re-download images from the server. Why? I’m not quite sure, but it was definitely slower than just hitting the back button to a page that it had in its history. The wonders of the making stuff for the interweb, will they never cease?
Now that I’ve given up on that idea, I guess I can just go ahead and design…