jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Is there any way in the current jqGrid implementation to attach a pager to a DOM tree that is not yet attached to the document?  I have gotten jqGrid to create the grid object itself using jQuery's selector context:

$("#new-jqgrid-id", some.disconnected.dom.tree).jqGrid({..., pager: "#new-jqgrid-pager-id"...});

The problem I'm running into is that I believe that jqGrid is searching for #new-jqgrid-pager-id in the document context, instead of the context in which jqGrid was called.  Is it possible to specify a context here?  I tried:

$("#new-jqgrid-id", some.disconnected.dom.tree).jqGrid({..., pager: $("#new-jqgrid-pager-id", some.disconnected.dom.tree)...});

This didn't work, although jQuery's selector specification indicates that the selector should be operating in the context I provided.  I suspect that this is going to be changed into a 'new feature request', but I'm hoping there is just something that I am missing here.