[jQuery] Looking for a way to pause (w/o using setTimeout) in an animate() function which is in the second...

[jQuery] Looking for a way to pause (w/o using setTimeout) in an animate() function which is in the second...


...part of a hover() function. Whew. SO, I'll post the code tomorrow
(I'm not at work right now). Basically, I am animating a little tab
rising and falling upon mouse rollover. I'm comfortable with hover()
and its dual function firing (mouseon and mouseoff {miyagi-like
there...]) and I wouldn't have this question exept for one catch. The
image inside the tab changes uopn mouseover and mouseoff as well.
Basically, inside of a hover() 4 things are happening:
1. mouseover occurs: background image of the tab changes (simple)