[thelist] onload event in IE Win

[Tim Plumb]

Hi all,
I've an HTML gallery that I'm putting together on the Mac in BBEdit  
and I'm glad to say that it works flawlessly in both Safari, IE and  
other Mac browsers. On checking a test page in IE 6 on a Windows XP  
machine the browser beeps twice and kills the application. Not  
ideal! ;-)
I tracked down the problem to an of onload event attached to each of  
the thumbnail images in the page. What should happen is that when  
each of these images completes loading it fires a function that looks  
for a cookie of the same name. If found another image next to the  
thumbnail is swapped for a 'flag' graphic.
In reality IE is firing these onload events continuously which causes  
the application to simply bail out and die. I can recode the page to  
use a function to do this when the page loads attached to another  
onload event (this time on the body) but I'm curious why IE is  
constantly firing these onload events when the page loads.
Looking at the JavaScript spec for the browser it appears IE should  
support the onload event on the image.
Any pointers on this are most welcome. I can also place a sample of  
the page online but, to be honest, the code is far from clean at the  
moment and needs a good tidy up! ;-)
Many thanks in advance,
Tim.