Ajax GET problem

Ajax GET problem

Hi everyone

I'm fairly new to ajax/jquery and I'm having some trouble trying to get a simple GET to work.

I have a page called 1.php with the following code:
<?php

   $id = $_GET["id"];
   echo "Put the news article with id = $id here!";

?>


This all works fine when I link directly to the page (I.e http://www.mysite.com/1.php?id=5 ), however when I load this page through jquery (so the url becomes http://www.mysite.com#1 ) the GET functionality stops working.

Am I doing something fundamentally wrong or something?
I'd really appreciate any help on this as it's been driving me mad for a couple of days now!!
Thanks
Ed