jQuery scrolling animation works, but window.location.hash screws it over-Collection of common programming errors

Trying to solve this issue for 2 days now without success.

I have a main nav bar located in a single page website. The website has a scrolling animation. Whenever the user clicks a link from the nav bar, the window.location.hash should change.

Now, the thing is that it USED to change. But at the same time, it had flickering issues (which I couldn’t resolve with e.preventDefault()). The only way to stop the flickering was to add the stop() to the window.location.hash. So now I don’t have the flickering but the window.location.hash doesn’t change anymore, which isn’t a good thing.

This is the code

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function gotoAndScroll(to){
    if(typeof to == 'string') {
        var diff = (to == '#newsPress')? 74 : 83;
        $.scrollTo( {top: $(to).offset().top - diff}, 1500, {axis:'y',easing:'easeInOutCubic'});
    }
    else if(typeof to == 'number'){
        $.scrollTo({top:Number(to), left:0},{duration:1500});
    }
}

$('.nav a').click(function(e) {

    if($(this).data('to') != '#home')
        gotoAndScroll($(this).data('to'));
    else 
        gotoAndScroll(0);
        window.location.hash = $(this).data('to').stop();
});    

$('a#logo').click(function(e) {
    if($(this).data('to') != '#home')
        gotoAndScroll($(this).data('to'));
    else 
        gotoAndScroll(0);
        window.location.hash = $(this).data('to').stop();
});    

    

Edit:

When clicking one of the nav links, I get the next error: Uncaught TypeError: Object #about has no method 'stop' Uncaught SyntaxError: Illegal return statement

I realize that stop() shouldn't be there, but, against all logic, that's the only thing that fixes the flickering.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? :/ Thanks in advance.