Browser window focus behaviour

Hey all, I am not sure if this is the most correct form for this, so feel free to let me know if there is a more appropiate one....
Within my organization, Sun Java is really causing a lot of frustration with how some of our web pages are working. The scenario is this...
1) user views details regarding a specific issue on a web page
2) user enters some data in textbox and then clicks button to email someone else
3) pop-up is displayed for the user to enter data for email
4) original page 'reloads' itself, which Sun Java then seems to cause it to steal focus again.
5) user thinks email window is gone, even though it has only moved behind original window.
Sometimes it takes a couple of seconds for the original window to steal the focus back, it there is a lot of data to display, so the user could already be typing in things, and then have a different window take focus.
We need to maintain some sort of 'reload' on the original page, in case any data changed on the page before the user clicked on the 'email' button, or other buttons, etc.
Our users are VERY annoyed by this. If we turn off Sun Java and use the MS jvm, it works fine. For some web apps, we need Sun Java though.
Users are on a variety of Sun Java versions, 1.41 to 1.5. at the least.
Any ideas on how I can change this behaviour?
Thanks,
Craig

I think that that's just the nature of the food-chain. It works much the same way that the browser's document window loses its ability to trap an event if that very same event is being trapped by an applet contained in the browser's window. I suspect that while you cannot programmatically give focus to the terminal emulation panel, it is possible for the user to click and give focus to the panel. What you might want to do is to create a popup that doesn't require a user's response.
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