jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Hi Tony, I just upgraded the grid to the latest 3.5 version... lots of stuff that has changed - thanks alot!

Some issues though that I came across as I upgraded:  (my grid code is at the bottom)

1.  I am getting a horizontal scrollbar showing up on the grid and I can slide it little bit to the right. (I don't want it)  Previously this was not a problem.  I am also getting a vertical scrollbar, but I want that since I am showing 50 records at a time.

2. I remember in the last version, there was some bug regarding datatype:local/json.  I had to use local back then, but now json is finally working (Thank you!).  However, for some reason, when I set it to json, Firefox complains (from firebug) as following:

uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.open]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: http://dev.site.com/boxfixrate2/Solo/Solo/Hero/WebCore/JS/jquery-1.3.2.min.js :: anonymous :: line 19" data: no]

3. Is there any way I can make sorting default to descending (instead of ascending).  A good example is the column Modified Date. Users are usually interested in seeing the newest date first when sorting this field (hence, they want descending order when they click the sort column). Have you implemented thsi feature?  If not, is there a workaround?

Thanks alot for your help.  Here is my grid code for reference:

        jQuery("#list").jqGrid({
            url: '',
            datatype: 'json',
            mtype: 'POST',
            celledit: false,
            colNames: ['Id', 'Rel', 'Name', 'Skills', 'Desired Role', 'City', 'St', 'Desired Sal.', 'Last Modified', 'WA', 'Edu', 'DET', 'SEC'],
            colModel: [
              { name: 'id', index: 'id', hidden: true },
              { name: 'score', index: 'score', sorttype: 'int', hidden: true },
              { name: 'fullname', index: 'fullname', edittype: 'text', sorttype: 'text', width: 124 },
              { name: 'skillcount', index: 'skillcount', width: 50, align: 'right' },
              { name: 'desiredrolestring', index: 'desiredrolestring', width: 140 },
              { name: 'city', index: 'city', width: 85 },
              { name: 'state', index: 'state', width: 45 },
              { name: 'desiredsalaryratetohour', index: 'desiredsalaryratetohour', sorttype: 'text', width: 95, align: 'right' },
              { name: 'modified', index: 'modified', width: 100, align: 'center' },
              { name: 'workauthorization', index: 'workauthorization', width: 55 },
              { name: 'highestdegree', index: 'highestdegree', width: 50 },
              { name: 'desiredemptype', index: 'desiredemptype', width: 65 },
              { name: 'securitylevel', index: 'securitylevel', width: 45}],
            height: "400px",
            jsonReader: {
                root: "profiles",
                page: "curPage",
                total: "totalPageCount",
                records: "recordCount",
                repeatitems: false
            },
            loadui: 'disable',
            pager: jQuery('#pager'),
            sortname: 'score',
            sortorder: "desc",
            onPaging: function(pgButton) {
                setTimeout(function() { getSearchResults(1); }, 1);
            },
            onSortCol: function(index, colindex, sortorder) {
                jQuery("#list").setGridParam({ page: 1 });
                setTimeout(function() { getSearchResults(1); }, 1);
            },
            afterInsertRow: function(rowid, rowdata, rowelem) {

                var link = '<a href="../Profile/ViewProfile.aspx?kid=' + rowid + '&mode=1&k=' + encodeURIComponent(cur_keywords) + '" target="_blank">' + rowdata.fullname + '</a>';
                jQuery("#list").setCell(rowid, 'fullname', link, {});

                var relScore = Math.ceil(rowdata.score * 100); //double number, 1 is 100%, 0.45 is 45%
                jQuery("#list").setCell(rowid, 'score', relScore + '%', {});

                if (rowdata.securitylevel == 'No')
                    jQuery("#list").setCell(rowid, 'securitylevel', 'N/A');

                var skills = '';
                if (rowdata.skillcount == null || rowdata.skillcount == '')
                    skills = '-  ';
                else
                    skills = '<a style="padding-right:7px" id="sk' + rowid + '" href="javascript:showSeekerSkills(\'' + rowid + '\');">' + rowdata.skillcount + '</a>'

                jQuery("#list").setCell(rowid, 'skillcount', skills, {});
            },
            rowNum: 50,
            rownumbers: true,
            rowList: [],
            viewrecords: true,
            width: 955,
            shrinkToFit: true,
            imgpath: '../../images/jqgrid',
            caption: ''
        });