Resizing an open Dialog as it's content's change

Using the sharepoint dialog framework, Is it possible to resize a dialog that is open when it's content changes?
The issue we currently have, is we have many layout pages we designed to open in a dialog that use our Custom Master Page. When sharepoint open's them in a dialog and their content changes (like when a validation summary adds some error messages when
you click OK on the dialog without entering in the required information) the dialog grows in height but the window stays the same size.
Ideally, I don't want to open the dialogs maximized, or to a fixed size. I want to use autoSize but I want to resize the dialog window when the content's change. I've googled this many times and haven't found anything that works. It would
be nice if there was method like "window.frameElement.autoSize()" I could call to resize the dialog.
I did notice the OOTB Dialog.Master page has a ton of javascript on it, and a method called onResize, not sure what that is for. Should we be using dialog.master as the master page for our dialog pages instead of
using our site master page?
My Blog: http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/ryan_mann1/default.aspx Website: Under Construction

I ended up making a custom dialog page from a copy of dialog.master. I gutted out about 90 percent of it, then created one table with a centered 100% width/height layout.
The end result is the Main Content placeholder center's it's contents on the dialog window. And because there is always white space around the actual dialog content, simply made everything inherit the same background color with css. On top of
that I change all of our dialog calls to send a width and height. I calculated the max height/width needed for each of the dialogs, then changed the call to that dialog to use that width and height.
Not the ideal solution, but it works ok, and doesn't look to bad.
I did reverse engineer the dialog page a bit, and the dialog.master and I came up with all the div's and iframes I would need to resize and reposition, but it's some pretty complex logic, so I put it off for now.
My Blog: http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/ryan_mann1/default.aspx Website: Under Construction

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