You've had some good suggestions so far.
Another way would be to put a unique compound index on the studentID and
courseID. Then if a user tries to insert a duplicate you get an ODBC error.
On the error HTML page of the insert action you display a message saying
they're already registered.

This has 2 benefits.
1) you don't have to do a search every time, so it's faster
2) it maintains data integrity by ensuring there are no duplicates

Hope it helps.
Dave.

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> Is the something I can put into the Meta data section of a specific HTML
> page that will prevent the user from refreshing the page.
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> I have a result page after a course registration that if refreshed will of
> course register them a second time for the same course. It messes up the
> course count.
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