OK I starting to understand this now, thank you

What's happening is that the hitcount itself goes up as the server continues to search, so I can see now that the JavaScript simply waits a little while, and then writes in the hitcount.

But from what you say, the final hitcount is already found and present in the bottom of the page am I right?

What I'm trying to do here is to make sure I get ALL the results available, because I want to go on to another page, and click the email button, but I thought I wasn't getting ALL the results available first (whether or not they are on the same page).

I'm expecting 600, as determined by my web search but only getting 67, and it occured to me this morning that the Http::Request::Form which automatically does the hidden buttons and defaulted values may be missing something which causes the search to be limited, so checking it out

thanks for your help
Sam