Michael,
I was just wondering why you don't set the Timeout value to
a very high number instead of using a refresh?

>Another little trick you can use if you want to keep the
>session alive is to set up a frameset with the main frame
>taking 100% of the row/col, the other frame now hidden
>can issue a refresh every 10 minutes or so. We have used
>this with a series of pages using session collections to
>gather input. It's better than allowing a timout and
>having to restart the session or using the other option
>of passing the entered data from page to page.