Reloading a Page when Browser back button is pressed

Hi There
We are designing a web site in which all the pages are dynamic depending on what he does with his email and addressbook system. Problem is when the uers request a change to the his email accounts or addressbook entries he is sent to editable pages .After editing he is sent back to view page .Now when he uses the back button he sees the old record that he modifed which i dont want to do that Instead i want him to show the updated version of that page
Now how to achieve this.
Is there any way to send a request to the server everytime the back button is pressed.
Also i am trying to remoce the cache using the code below but it does not work i just dont know why?
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache"); // HTTP 1.1
response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache"); //HTTP 1.0
response.setHeader("Expires" , "0");
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Mumtaz

I also have noticed that in the latest version of Explorer it ignore the no-Cache header when the back button is pressed. Is this an undocumented "feature" put in place by MS or is there a newer header tag that needs to be set. The no-cache and expires tags work fine in Netscape and ealier versions of MS with my existing code. The version I am having difficulties with is 6.00
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