I actually have now fixed the problem, and yes, Michel was right. It turns out that the default IE on W2K (5.0.x) and IE 5.0, and IE 5.01 on WNT both suffer from this problem. Updating to 5.5 was necessary to fix it. (It's pretty annoying tho' since I wonder how many people out there are still running 5.0 and 5.01). Zope looks great! After messing w/ costly app servers and my disk going to lunch grinding away on .jsp files :), I'm impressed w/ the speed -- I'd written a template processing thingie using mod_perl on Apache, so I can appreciate the work this must have taken. Hats off to you folks! Thanks a bunch. ps. please write some good documentation on the internals -- for those of us who are knowledgeable about "other" solutions, zope sure seems impenetrable and mysterious.. (I'm sure the scales will fall from eyes as I work/play w/ it more).