Table not starting to draw at row 0 ?

Zven

My table contains 'events' (with a date), the idea is that the user can navigate through the events (in the future events, but also in the past events), and that initially the table should position at the row with 'today's event'. It is also possible to put filtering on the table and then the table should refresh, again positioning at today's event (or the nearest one in the future).
I am using 'serverside' and the scroller extension. The server code can easily calculate (taking into account the current filter setting) which rownumber (with date = today) needs to be shown initially so this could be used to position the scroller, however the datatable always asks for row= 0 first when redrawing it. meaning that very old events -not of much interest anymore to must users - are always loaded first.
Is there a way to get around this ? Thanks.