[eluser]joergy[/eluser]
Sorry, I give it up.
I can't see the purpose of Your desire.
'cur_page' isn't a config var for pagination but retrieved "automatically" from the calling url.
If You can set it, your script already knows on which page it is and hasn't to retrieve it.
The purpose of pagination is to automate the process of retrieving the selected page and building a set of links from this info....
Again sorry and bye bye
Joergy