Closing browser window with Javascript

In our Forms application, we have been using a line of Javascript in POST-FORM to close the browser window after the form is closed. After installing Windows XP SP2, this no longer works and my understanding is that putting the code in a standalone HTML file, and calling this file from POST-FORM will work.
1. Where does this HTML file reside? My guess is
{ORACLE_HOME}\forms90\server
2. How is this script invoked? I guessed it would be
WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT('close.html').
I'm clearly wrong, as this does not work!
Many thanks in advance.

You might also want to look at the following thread:
Re: IE message "The web page you are viewing is trying...
It refers to the addition of some JAVASCRIPT to your formsweb.cfg file which resolves the problem of the IE message "The web page you are viewing is trying..." from being displayed. It still may not work if you are running seperateFrame=True though, I have detailed the problem I'm experiencing in the associated thread.
I'd be interested to hear if you can get round the display of the message if you are running in a separate frame.
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