[jQuery] accordion - trigger *and* link possible?

I'm new to the jQuery UI accordion. I'm hoping to use it for a menu.
I'm loving the "navigation" option. However, one of my team members
feels strongly that, in order to avoid confusion, every user's click
should load a page. It appears that the accordion widget prevents
navigating to the href attribute of an element that is also a panel
heading. The sub-items open and close fine but the href is ignored.
I'm using a nested <ol> format to construct the menu. Am I missing
something?

Thanks.
Steve