Fotiman - 3:32 pm on Oct 24, 2011 (gmt 0)

seems like the only option is for me to switch to regualr a link

I assume that what you mean by "regular a link" is to use a link that has querystring values instead of trying to rely on the hash. In which case, yes, I believe that is the only option for allowing the browser to recognize them as unique URIs.