Enable embedded sortable lists in cancelled (sortable) list items? - JQUERY

Does anyone know how to allow embedded/nested lists to be sortable if their parent list item is a cancelled list item on a sortable list?
I.E. Preventing the cancel option in jquery sortable from affecting any nested sortable children?

Example HTML:


<ul id="sortable_list">
	<li>Item 1</li>
	<li class="cancelSortable">Item 2
		<ul id="sortable_nestedList">
			<li>Nested 1</li>
			<li>Nested 2</li>
			<li>Nested 3</li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	<li class="cancelSortable">Item 3</li>
	<li class="cancelSortable">Item 4</li>
</ul>

You can see from the above code that I only desire (in this instance) the first LI to be sortable within it’s siblings but for those siblings to contain sortable lists. I am using the following JQuery:


$("ul[id^=sortable_]").sortable(
	{
		cancel: 'li.cancelSortable',
		update: 
			function() { 
				var result = $(this).sortable('toArray'); 
				alert(result);
			}
	}
);

The cancel option seems to propogate down to all it’s children too, when I don’t require this. I need to ‘allow’ any cancelled li’s children ul’s.

Any light shed on this would be most gratefully received.