Scrolling an UL within a div to a LI from external click

Scrolling an UL within a div to a LI from external click

Hi Folks,
I am new to jQuery and was hoping someone could help me out with this - I really don't know where to start.

What I have is an automatically generated UL like this where each <li> contains information about a various subject or topic:

  1. <div id="container">
  2. <ul id="menu-list">
  3. <li class="item-1">contents...</li>
  4. <li class="item-2">contents...</li>
  5. <li class="item-3">contents...</li>
  6. <li class="item-4">contents...</li>
  7. etc......
  8. </ul>
  9. </div>
Elsewhere on the page are links which if someone clicks on them I want the relevant <li> containing the information to scroll to the top of the container div and present the user with the info.
It is also important that the <ul> remains scrollable within the container div so that the user can actually scroll and navigate the <ul> as a menu also.
I have the container div fixed width and height with overflow:scroll; and the <ul> scrolls real nice in the div BUT that's as far as I have got - getting more confused the more I look so any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance folks..