[jQuery] Animation error and next level help

[Benjamin Sterling]

Guys,
I am working on a plugin and having two issues:

url in quesiton; http://www.benjaminsterling.com/experiments/neurosesgalore/
js file in question:
http://www.benjaminsterling.com/experiments/neurosesgalore/common/js/i.js

Question 1:
As it stands now, I have below in a click event:

                            var $this = $(this);

                            $this.animate({'left':-208,'top':15},
                            s.speed,
                            function(){
                                var cur = elArray.shift();
                                elArray.push(cur);
                                for ( var i = 0; i <elArray.length; i++ ) {
                                    $(elArray[i]).css('z-index', String(
elArray.length-i));
                                };

                                $this.animate({
                                    'left':0,
                                    'top':0
                                },s.speed);
                            });

And it works in Firefox, but in IE6 I am getting an "Invalid argument"
error, which I had broken done to being this part of the code:

                            $this.animate({'left':-208,'top':15},

I changed to:

                            $this.animate({'left':'-208','top':'15'},

and still the same error.

Question 2:
I want to make the above code more dynamic, I am allowing for a option to be
passed in to change the direction of the animation, but when I do:

                            newDirection = 'left';
                            $this.animate({newDirection:-208,'top':15},

It left animation does not work at all.

Any help and direction would be very helpful.

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Benjamin Sterling
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