True, everything has a gotcha. Thus far, the Javascript has taken care of the problem. However, it's not perfect. I'm in the process of porting all this code for mod_perl and re-writing major sections. Doing the redirect would be simpler to add at that time. Assigning a unique id would be the best solution; however, the message and the reply dialogue are just html pages, so it's not possible as far as I know without a fairly major architectural change.