Ajax recommendation

[eluser]SomeFunkyDude[/eluser]
I'm in the process of making an autocomplete using a jQuery plug-in with CodeIgniter. So far it works in FF/IE7/Safari, but not on the Mac browsers I tried.

You can see an example here: http://starstryker.com/search_songs/inde...ong_search
As you start to type, the jQuery script uses ajax to fetch a database model via get. There are over 30k karaoke songs, give it a shot. An issue I'm sort of having at the moment, is I'd like a less concise search if nothing shows up, as it is right now, using the database class $this->db->or_like(); it will try and match every letter typed, but I want to see if I can make it where if no matches are found, that it will search for parts of the word instead of the word as a whole.

My next step, aside from broadening the search results if none are found, is I need to possibly make an a-z directory which will use pagination, and if possible, use ajax/jQuery to load details about the song into the page.

Lemme know if you plan to use this jQuery plug-in, I ran into a couple snags I could probably help you with.