Guidance on approach to panorama web gallery

Looking for advice on my approach to making a web gallery to view panorama images. I'd like the gallery to have similar features to the Zoomify export from Photoshop, i.e. the ability to zoom in/out and drag the image around the window a la Google Maps.
I can handle the web-related things and Lua-related things but I'm wondering if the web gallery part of the SDK will let me intervene in the step where image files are generated. This is because I need to invoke an external tool to generate the tiles necessary for the zooming/dragging feature. Ideally I'd use LR to generate the tiles but I don't think that's possible (please correct me if I'm wrong).
If not, is there any reason (other than a lack of live preview ability) that I could not do this as an export plug-in?
Thanks for any pointers.
db

I definitely want a tiling approach to speed performance. And I almost always prefer a JavaScript approach over a Flash approach. That said, I'd be fine using the Zoomify export that comes with Photoshop CS3 but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to resize its window to the width of the browser. It's a shame to try to look at a panorama on a 1680-wide screen and only have half the screen actually showing any image. Seems like an obvious requirement to me.
I figured that since the advent of Google Maps, there would be tons of JavaScript libraries around to do what I want to do. In the end, I only found two. One actually uses Google Maps to navigate the image but I bailed on it for a couple of reasons. The other seems workable but I haven't tested it on multiple browsers since I'm trying to get the panoramas themselves done first. That has taken way longer than expected because of what seems to be some issues with LR's ability to deal with large images. Although LR2 has enhancements to let it import much larger images than LR1, it's basically unusable for me. But I'm getting OT. If someone wants to pursue that, I can start another thread. Anyway, I'm starting over and using LR to send the initial images to Photoshop to stitch together and now I'm going to do all image work on the panoramas in Photoshop in order to get things done. Bummer.
I'll post progress here when I have the panoramas up on my site.
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