OK, I've done some more work on this and it's a hopeless task. While you can rewrite the pseudo-apply function to work, IE5.0 can't seem to work out the length of the jquery object correctly.
But even if you get that working, IE5.0 doesn't support rudimentary RegExp, e.g. "?=\w". It's time to give up. It's beyond a plugin to fix. John, if you read this, don't waste your time with an IE5.0 plugin, there is more important stuff to address! A _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
