Nothing wrong with that approach for certain projects. Unfortunately I'm not on one of those projects I fear. Client has requested an object oriented controller written in javascript using the jQuery library, and jQuery is rapidly appearing to be the wrong choice for this particular task as large sections of the framework must perform actions that have little to nothing to do with the DOM. That is, the task before me is not DOM centric, so a DOM-centric procedural based framework isn't the answer.
I'll try pete higgin's hitch function out - hopefully that will help.