Slider is initialized with animate and event-functions but they got lost by using methods

The Slider is initialized by following code:

var min = 2000;
var max = 2009;

$("#slider").slider({
        animate: true,
        min:    min,
        max:    max,
        change: function(event, ui) {
                $("#timeline_years li[class*='year']").removeClass("active");
                $("#timeline_years li.year"+ui.value).addClass("active");
        },
        slide: function(event, ui) {
                $("#timeline_years li[class*='year']").removeClass("active");
                $("#timeline_years li.year"+ui.value).addClass("active");
        },
        stop: function(event, ui) {
                changeInfo(ui.value);
        }

});

this works all fine inside the slider area.

BUT when I want to control the slider outside the slider area like:

$("#outsideSlider").click(function(){
        $("#slider").slider('value',min);
});

The indicator will move directly to the choosen value, but without any initialized option, that means no animation and no event function.

A reinitialization of the Slider or the redeclaration of all options with following code doesn't work either:

$("#outsideSlider").click(function(){ 
        $("#slider").slider('option',{
                animate: true,
                min:    min,
                max:    max,
                value:  min,
                change: function(event, ui) {
                        $("#timeline_years li[class*='year']").removeClass("active");
                        $("#timeline_years li.year"+ui.value).addClass("active");
                },
                slide: function(event, ui) {
                        $("#timeline_years li[class*='year']").removeClass("active");
                        $("#timeline_years li.year"+ui.value).addClass("active");
                },
                stop: function(event, ui) {
                        changeInfo(ui.value);
                }
        }); 
});

It will move, but also without animation and without any event-function.