"Is there a better way?" No, you can clearly see he has the key of "q" hard-coded right in the code.....
this was the previous topic i spoke of http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/4afe40edefcaed19/2d981b31387bdc98?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=morningz+q and in there, it was the same answer, but in that case I had lightly tested it and it worked fine...