So I've got a pretty nice application going using ui-tabs.. problem is, I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to pre-load images in my ajax content before the tab panel is shown.  The only way I can think of is to create my own ajax functionality for the loading of tab-panel content, and adding something like this to the ajax call:
success: function(response){
        $(response).find('img').preload({
                onFinish: function(){
                        currentTabPanel.show();
                }
        });
}

But I'm thinking there's GOT to be a better way of going about this using the built in AJAX methods and events in the jQueryUi.tabs() object.. I just don't think I'm seeing it... arg.. any ideas??