Help positioning pager with cycle plugin?

Help positioning pager with cycle plugin?

I am creating a slideshow deal with many options for user choice. One of the choices I want the pager to be <em>over</em> the slider itself, but the positioning with the before and after parameters seems to put it relative to the page and not the slider..?  Is there a way I can do this, and does it make sense? :) Here is some of the code I have thus far.  Thanks!
  1. <?php if( $this->params->get('slideType') == "'956px'")
     {?>
        $('div.slide_content').remove();
       
    <?php }?>

        $('.slider img').css('width', <?php echo $this->params->get('slideType'); ?>);
        $('.slider')
            .after('<div id="slider_nav">')
            .cycle({
                pager:  '#slider_nav',
                fx:     <?php echo $this->params->get('slideEffect'); ?>,
                timeout: <?php echo $this->params->get('slideDuration'); ?>
            });