Yeah, I either print those two Content headers or set them using the Response object, but they seem to have no effect. It seems to write the excel stream before it writes the header info so I get the following (source dump of resultant page): 
ÐÏà¡....ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ <--loads of stuff
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:43:16 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b mod_perl/1.
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ContentDisposition: attachment; filename=test.xls
Content-Length: 0
Expires: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:43:15 GMT
Cache-Control: private
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel

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