[jQuery] Plugin Authoring Help pt 2

[Leanan]

Ok, I'm really trying to wrap my head around this, and it's irritating
me.  I've checked out the following pages:

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring
http://www.learningjquery.com/2007/10/a-plugin-development-pattern

And they help some but there's one problem I'm running into.

I have:

$.fn.myPlugin = function(options) {
  $.myPlugin.defaults = $.extend($.myPlugin.defaults, options);
  return(this);
};

$.myPlugin = {
  defaults: {
    def1: 'default1',
    def2: 'default2',
    ...
    defx: 'defaultx'
  },

  myFunc: function() {
    var options = $.myPlugin.defaults;
    //do something here, anything really
  },

  myFunc2: function() {
      var options = $.myPlugin.defaults;
      //do something here, again, anything
  }
};

Now, I want to do something like this:

jQuery().myPlugin({def1: 'other_def1', def2: 'other_def2'}).myFunc();

Can I?

Because it's not working.  It tells me that jQuery().myPlugin({def1:
'other_def1', def2: 'other_def2'}) is not a function.

However, if I change it so that myFunc is $.fn.myFunc = function()
{ }, then I can, but I have to do it as:

jQuery().myPlugin({def1: 'other_def1', def2:
'other_def2'}).myPlugin.myFunc();

Which I don't like.

None of the tutorials or documentation I can find is clear on this
point, though they do refer to the functions in $.myPlugin as being
user-accessable... and they are, but only if I do $.myPlugin.myFunc.
I can't chain.  And I want to be able to do that.