Determining the Current Tab

I am currently on a project dealing with tabs as defined by the 3.0.9 portal.
It is an absolute showstopper if we cannot determine which tab page a portlet is on, that is if we cannot know the identity/state of the currently rendered tab in a page.
Either we need to know how to hook to a tab so that when it is clicked we can get some info, or we must have the state of the currently visible tab page.
There is no apparent API for this.
We have tried to construct a tab page monitor, but cannot attach aportlet to the page which we can guarantee will be rendered first, and therefor use that to guarantee the rest of the portlets on the page will be rendered properly.
Once again, this is a showstopper for the client. There must be a reliable workaround for this, but we have not found it.
Help!

I'm concerned...
It has been suggested that I could essentiall parse the "_pageid" variable from the current page URL to get the information about which tab is visible, by matching what I know to be the page, and tab numbers for the tabs on the page. I certainly can do that.
Even a brute force approach such as this requires that I have access to the current Page URL.
Perhaps I have missed something, but is there a method in PL.SQL for me to get the URL for the current page, rather than for the current portlet?
I cannot guarantee which sequence portlets will be rendered on the page, only that they will all start and finish ( or time out ) before the page is displayed to me.
So, Is there a method to get the Page URL( with query string attached ) between the time when it is sent (completed) to the server to be rendered, and time when the page is displayed in my browser.
This is the time when the portlets on the page need the information to do their jobs.
Or, is there a way to hook into the tab, and when it is pressed, set some state variable that will serve the purpose as well.
We are using only the standard components and PL/SQL as required to promote maintenance and eventual reuse.
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