parent window refresh problem

hi all

I have a page(Parent page) which refreshes every 60 seconds(using Meta Refresh). This page has links to open popup child windows . The child windows read user data ,process it and at the end refresh the main page and close itself.

In Parent page iam using

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="60">

in child windows iam using the javascript

opener.location.reload();
self.close();

This works fine when the child window processes and closes before the parent page refreshes itself.

But if the Parent page refreshes itself before the child window tries to refresh , then i get a

MicroSoft JScript runtime error :Permission denied

( at the line "opener.location.reload();")

I have tried using the following but it didnt work out

Can any body suggest how to avoid this error. This is a serious requirement for my application to refresh the parent window on close of child window

Thank you in advance

srikanth

[1321 byte] By [srikanthbakki] at [2007-12-24]