[jQuery] AJAX Problem

[jQuery] AJAX Problem


Hi there, so I am trying out jQuery recently, moving from MooTools,
and needed to do some AJAX. Here is my code:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#events_box a.ajax_replace').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        $('.news_border').slideUp('slow');
        $.ajax({
            method: 'get',
            url: e.attr('href'),
            data: { 'do' : '1' },
            beforeSend: function(){
                alert('beforeSend');
                $('#loader').show('fast');
            },
            complete: function(){
                alert('complete');
                $('#loader').hide('fast');
            },
            success: function(html){
                alert('success');
                $('.news_border').html(html).show('slow');
            }
        });
    });
});
As far as I have read on these groups, the documentation, and some
tutorials I found this should work. Everything before the $.ajax
request works fine, however nothing within the $.ajax gets processed.
I'm pretty positive what I am using in the data: area is wrong, it's
what I use in MooTools. However I have heard before that my current
host (Dreamhost) requires data to be sent in an AJAX request in order
to make it work, so I think I need to include something even though I
need no actual data sent in this request. Taking out the data line
does not fix the problem.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?