After much searching and playing with code, I’ve come to find this method to be most effective cross-browser solution to get and set the browsers scrollbar position. It has been tested to work in IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, and assumed to work in other popular browsers, as well.

function getScrollXY() {
    var x = 0, y = 0;
    if( typeof( window.pageYOffset ) == 'number' ) {
        // Netscape
        x = window.pageXOffset;
        y = window.pageYOffset;
    } else if( document.body && ( document.body.scrollLeft || document.body.scrollTop ) ) {
        // DOM
        x = document.body.scrollLeft;
        y = document.body.scrollTop;
    } else if( document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.scrollLeft || document.documentElement.scrollTop ) ) {
        // IE6 standards compliant mode
        x = document.documentElement.scrollLeft;
        y = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
    }
    return [x, y];
}

function setScrollXY(x, y) {
    window.scrollTo(x, y);
}