Photos page and anchors

Hi, everybody--
Let me start by saying that I have searched these forums for information on anchors. I have seen the solutions put forth by Old Toad, Wyodor, & Cyclosaurus, plus I have Cedric's iWebFAQ.org eBook & have read the chapter on anchors.
My problem is with the Photos page & how it generates anchors. The first photo is #0, the next is #1, and so on. There's also a #grid anchor.
I have added a lot of text above my Photo grid. (This is because if you put text below the grid, then click one of the photos to see it bigger, the grid does not push the text boxes down on the page and so the photo displays on top of the text. Not good.)
When I click on any of the photos, let's say the 3rd photo for example, the address bar changes to <MyURL>/PageName.html#2. That's good; that's what's supposed to happen.
The problem is that the page reloads up at the top, and the user must scroll down to see the photo. (This is true no matter which photo is selected.) Once the user scrolls back down to the photo, they can click on other photos and the page stays there; it's only the first time they click that this happens.
In trying to solve this problem, I have tried all of the solutions listed above. None of them seem to work for the Photo anchors. At first I thought it was because the navbar is #0 and that was forcing the page to go to the top, but that can't be it because it doesn't matter whether you choose the first photo (#0) or the last (#65, in my case); the page always goes to the top.
Can anybody shed any light onto what is actually happening & how it might be fixed?
Many thanks.
-Michèle in San Diego

photos page functionalities controlled by a hosts of ajax/javascript widgets.
the first ajax widget populates photo grid with thumbnails, data are from photos page rss.xml .
three other widgets set up the thumbnail strip, the detail view (slideshow place holder) and caption, prev, next controls.
everything described above is on the same page.
photos page anchors are not ordinary anchors, they are used to turn on/off different elements (on the same page).
when you click on the 3rd photo, one piece of javascript turns off the the photo grid and another turn on the 3rd photo in detail view... in the process, the page view is reset to the top.
so, by know how to get to detail view in DOM; you can scroll to that section using Scriptaculous Effect.ScrollTo method: http://temp.cyclosaurus.com/Test/Photos.html
you are on your own, because I no longer post code in these forums.

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