Sliding Panels Question

Hi there. I'm new to Spry, and I'm using 1.6.1 in Dreamweaver CS3. I want to create sliding panels to showcase some work I've done, but I wanted to know if it's possible to build a scroll function for one panel which will have multiple pieces of work (not a scrollbar).
There's not enough horizontal real estate to show all the work in this particular panel at once, so I want to put a "continue" or "next" and a "previous" button/function on that panel so the user can automatically view differents areas of the panel to see the rest of the related work, without creating a number of different panels for all this.
Is this possible in the sliding panels widget, or is there just one pass per panel? I hope my question is clear.
I'm trying to decide whether to build this in Spry or Flash.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
L

I dug around a bit more and saw an example that shows me that I can do this. Thanks anyway!

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Okay, So I'm dense at times!
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