jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

I have had no luck trying to populate the page number field.

jqGrid sends and returns the correct page number when selecting first, next, previous, last buttons, but the page number field - $("#lrt.ui-pg-input") - always has a value of 0, it appears empty,  and the end User cannot enter a number in this field.

Is there something in the jqGrid api that would allow me to explicity set the value of this field?

Other than the above, paging works correctly for my grid.

Anyone help?

Thanks,

Noah