[drupal-devel] Multiple sortable tables on one page?

The pager API provides a nice way to have multiple page-able tables on one page: the $element argument to theme('pager') and pager_query(). But as far as I can tell, there is no way to do the same with the tablesort API. Am I mistaken? If not, should I write a patch? Thanks, Evan P.S. If this is the wrong place for this question, please forgive me and tell me where the correct place is.