I found this link mrkadin.com/blog/node/70 on Planet Drupal, and thought it was a helpful start to setting up Ajax the easy/lazy way using views.  I extended it to a bit more generic as follows:

1. Make the ajax callback url used in the rewrite in the view 'common-ajax/nojs/{VIEWNAME}/{VIEW ARGUMENT}'

2. Create a module with the following code to handle the callback:

<?phpfunction common_menu() {        $items['common-ajax/%/%'] = array(                'access arguments' => array('access content'),                'page callback' => 'common_ajax_callback',                'page arguments' => array(1,2),                'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,        );        return $items;}function common_ajax_callback($js, $view_name, $param1) {  $view = views_get_view($view_name);  $view->set_display('default');  // Currently, only the 'default' display id is used here  $view->set_arguments(array($param1));       // If the nojs didn't get changed to ajax, the user has no javascript.  // Display as a normal (non-ajax) page  if ($js == 'nojs') {      $view->use_ajax = FALSE;      $view->is_attachment = TRUE;            return($view->render());  }   //print the rendered version of your view  $html = $view->render();   // Prepare an ajax command to insert the node html into our ajax wrapper.  $commands = array();  $commands[] = ajax_command_html('#common-ajax-wrapper', $html);  // Render the commands into JSON and print them.  print ajax_render($commands);  exit;  // Exit so Drupal doesn't have a chance to build a whole page.}

3. Add a div with id common-ajax-wrapper to page.tpl.php for the theme

This creates a nice generic version which allows any view to be used, with one parameter (although this could be easily extended to cater for any number of parameters)

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