Since noone responded to my previous post, I decided to fix the code myself. In the main page's source, please modify the countdown script as follows:else if (document.all||document.getElementById)crosscount.innerHTML="" // ADDED, FDj to fix for MSIE 5.2.1 for Mac OS Xcrosscount.innerHTML=opentags+dday+ " days, "+dhour+" hours, "+dmin+" minutes, and "+dsec+" seconds left until "+occasion+closetagsThe innerHTML needs to be cleared before setting it anew to work around a bug in this version of MSIE. There are still weird effects with the script, but it's much better than it was.Thanks,Florian

Thanks, Florian!I did note your original response and sent a couple of dispatches to folks running MacOSX (although with MSIE 5.1.x) and did indeed replicate your issue, although I had thoroughly no idea how to fix it!Many thanks for your patch. I'm applying it right now to the places where that script is used.Regards,--M

While we're at it here goes the whole code with the fix mentioned above plus a fix which displays "1 second" instead of "1 seconds". Also fixes for the minutes, hours, and days... ;-):-rotor Dave<script language="JavaScript1.2">function setcountdown(theyear,themonth,theday){yr=theyear;mo=themonth;da=theday}setcountdown(2002,09,13)var occasion="The Flight Simulation 2002 Convention!"var message_on_occasion="See you at the Convention!"var countdownwidth='400px'var countdownheight='30px'var countdownbgcolor='navy'var opentags='

'var closetags=''var montharray=new Array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec")var crosscount=''function start_countdown(){if (document.layers)document.countdownnsmain.visibility="show"else if (document.all||document.getElementById)crosscount=document.getElementById&&!document.all?document.getElementById("countdownie") : countdowniecountdown()}if (document.all||document.getElementById)document.write('')window.onload=start_countdownfunction countdown(){var today=new Date()var todayy=today.getYear()if (todayy < 1000)todayy+=1900var todaym=today.getMonth()var todayd=today.getDate()var todayh=today.getHours()var todaymin=today.getMinutes()var todaysec=today.getSeconds()var todaystring=montharray[todaym]+" "+todayd+", "+todayy+" "+todayh+":"+todaymin+":"+todaysecfuturestring=montharray[mo-1]+" "+da+", "+yrdd=Date.parse(futurestring)-Date.parse(todaystring)dday=Math.floor(dd/(60*60*1000*24)*1)dhour=Math.floor((dd%(60*60*1000*24))/(60*60*1000)*1)dmin=Math.floor(((dd%(60*60*1000*24))%(60*60*1000))/(60*1000)*1)dsec=Math.floor((((dd%(60*60*1000*24))%(60*60*1000))%(60*1000))/1000*1)//if on day of occasionif(dday<=0&&dhour<=0&&dmin<=0&&dsec<=1&&todayd==da){if (document.layers){document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.document.write(opentags+message_on_occasion+closetags)document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.document.close()}else if (document.all||document.getElementById)crosscount.innerHTML=""crosscount.innerHTML=opentags+message_on_occasion+closetagsreturn}//if passed day of occasionelse if (dday<=-1){if (document.layers){document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.document.write(opentags+"Occasion already passed! "+closetags)document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.document.close()}else if (document.all||document.getElementById)crosscount.innerHTML=""crosscount.innerHTML=opentags+"Occasion already passed! "+closetagsreturn}//else, if not yetelse{var s = dday + " day"if (dday != 1) s += "s"s += ", " + dhour + " hour"if (dhour != 1) s += "s"s += ", " + dmin + " minute"if (dmin != 1) s += "s"s += ", " + dsec + " second"if (dsec != 1) s += "s"s += " left until "+occasionif (document.layers) {document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.document.write(opentags+s+closetags)document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.document.close()}else if (document.all||document.getElementById)crosscount.innerHTML=""crosscount.innerHTML=opentags+s+closetags}setTimeout("countdown()",1000)}(Spacing has been added where I put in changes, just for clarification.)