I am developing a complex set of web pages using a LOT of server-side ASP
coding (no Javascript or VBScript). I'm well aware that IE is a lot sloppier
than NS as far as handling the code, so I've spent a LOT of time cleaning up
improperly nested tags, etc etc, to get it to work the same in NS as it does
in IE.. All of this works fine in IE, btw.

The current problem is that I'm populating dropboxes from largish external
files using ASP, but some of them will not show up in NS. The source code
looks fine, as far as nested tags and other syntax, and I can even run the
actual parsed out code thru the w3c validator and it will come out fine.
What's REALLY weird, is that when I look at the page in NS, and don't see
the dropbox, if I then immediately print that page (CtrlP), the missing
dropbox is there! And this is random behavior, btw, sometimes the dropbox
shows up fine :( Reloading the page does not correct the problem.

And yet another one--some of the populated fields on the dropbox are college
names, so there's "Texas A&M University", for example. If I run the (parsed
out) source for this page thru the validator, it flags that line. If I
change it to "Texas A & M University" (spaces around the amp) it doesn't
flag. Clearly the ampersand must be being parsed by NS, and I won't bet my
rent this isn't part of the reason I'm having problems. <sigh>

I thought perhaps it was a script timeout, but I'm not getting an error, and
all the entries do show up in source. The script timeout is set to 90
seconds, which *should* be OK, but we did bump it to 120 secs.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Elaine Pack, Web Analyst
Charlottesville, VA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any opinions are my own



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