With the new feature in 3.6 that lets us scroll a text box, I rewrote part of the guestbook and it was MUCH simpler on the 3dfa side. You can see it in action

http://bretlanius.com/gb/guests.html

This was a quick hack to see if it would work there is no option for adding a comment on this one. I may rethink the whole thing near future. Have some new ideas.