I needed to navigate the IE Web Controls Treeview from the browser.
In order to do this I altered the treeview.htc to share its navigateNode method.
I am not sure if there is another way, but here is the solution I used.
First you need to edit the treeview.htc found in your inetpub\wwwroot\webctrl_client\1_0 or comparable directory.
Add the bolded line below to the list of public interfaces.
<public:methodname="databindTypes"/>
 <public:methodname="getChildren"/>
 //insert the following line
 <public:methodname="navigateNode"/> </public:component>
Next, the javascript you require would be along these lines
//Get the treeview object -
//getElementByID will expect the name of your treeview
//Get the Node you require by using getTreeNode
//selectedNodeIndex get/sets the index as dot notation
//In the behaviour you will see the explanation as
//     A
//   / | \
//   B C D
//   / \ / \
//  E F G H
// node F is 0.0.1, node G is 0.2.0, and H is 0.2.1.