Answering my own question... I tried it out, and this works beautifully, so far:
$('#myEventList div.itemContent').load('/events/quicklist', function(){ $('#myEventList div.itemContent a.event').bind('click', function(){
showEventDetails(this.id); }) });... And then showEventDetails() strips out what it needs, and does the same load() for each related DIV. Woo-hoo!! jQuery ROCKS! And it makes rapid development simple with CakePHP!!
Regards, -Toby