After this thread didn't work out for me for my specific need (scrolling inside a particular element, in my case a textarea) I found this out in the great beyond, which could prove helpful to someone else reading this discussion:
Since I already had a cached version of my jQuery object (the myPanel
in the code below is the jQuery object), the code I added to my event handler was simply this:
myPanel.scrollTop(myPanel[0].scrollHeight - myPanel.height());
(thanks Ben)