Ajax Error Handling Breaks Everything

Ajax Error Handling Breaks Everything

I've noticed that when jQuery mobile attempts to load a page and either times out or an error occurs on the back end (500, 404, etc) it displays the "error loading page" message but then everything on the page breaks. For the most part attempting to click any of the jQuery formatted links on the page doesn't trigger any action, only clicking on actual data-role=none links seem to do anything.

Is there any way to override the default jQuery mobile ajax error handling?