Short Version : Is it possible to alter Overscroll somehow to make the element start scrolled 50% of the way along both the x and y axes? If so, how?

Long version:

For a current project, I'm using jquery and the Overscroll plugin ( http://www.azoffdesign.com/plugins/js/overscroll) to allow a large table to be scrolled around, ultimately to produce a google maps kind of effect (ajax included, but I've got that part figured). What I'd ideally like is for the table to start positioned such that the center of it is visible, rather than the top left as would be expected. At first I tried to do this with scrollTop and scrollLeft, only to see the changes be instantly reset when the page loaded by something...presumably within Overscroll.

I eventually found the offending code - Overscroll sets some css values of the scrollable element, which obviously reset the position to it's default top left when they were run. I removed these (and placed the css into my css file to ensure I didn't break anything). The position of the table is now correct, as I hoped, but the table no longer scrolls.

I've barely ever used jquery before, and am hardly a fantastic javascript coder either, so my understanding of Overscroll is not good enough to figure out exactly what, if anything, can be done to fix this. My best guess is that Overscroll relies on the element being top-left to start with, hence changing the position messes things up, but I wouldn't know how to sort that even if I could be sure I was right.

Is anyone able to shed some light on this for me? Have I been barking up the wrong tree entirely?