UI Tabs - show tab question

UI Tabs - show tab question


Is there a way to show a tab without triggering the click event for
that tab?
In more detail:
I'm using the 'select' event on the tabs to initialize a new form for
data entry. There is a summary list below it, that when clicked, will
populate the corresponding tab with existing data. So...when someone
clicks on the summary row, I'm issuing an Ajax call to get the data. I
then want to "show" the appropriate tab and then load the data I
received from my Ajax call.
I tried initially using the tabs to handle the Ajax calls, but because
of the way we are using them, I had to change.
Any suggestions?