>>>How come the icons in the lower left pane keep insisting on downloading more than once per logon? The UT has more than enough bandwidth problems already and this just make the problem even worse.
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>>>Win98/IE5
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>> To get the message stuff to update that frame is to set refresh every X seconds (however you've configured your account). Since the image icons are part of that frame, they get refreshed/redownloaded too.
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>I think that this is a browser implementation, that disallows caching of images when there is a META refresh tag.
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>All that the browser has to do is read which image it should be loading, and it should be able to choose those from cache...

Sure, but wouldn't the REFRESH tag be equivalent to clicking the Refresh button on your browser? I know when I do that I'm telling the browser to reload everything (specifically, DON'T use it's cache). I think it's behavior makes sense if that's the case.