Paging like the old days in version 2

I have tried the paging sugestet by Alex, but sorting and other stuff gets meesed up.
http://www.activewidgets.com/javascript.forum.12092.28/paging-with-version-2-0.html

What would it take to make somthing like this, is it possible at all.
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/webtress/awsamp/examples/autocomplete.html

Will next version have working paging Alex.