Safari Caching

Okay.... I'm incredibly frustrated, but perhaps someone here is genius enough to save my day.
I'm hosting www.howcanidomore.com
it loads GREAT in firefox. (i hear it loads fine in IE as well, and I'm not worried about chrome yet)
Loads fine at first in safari- but once you refresh or click something like Home or Articles (in the category bar in the center of the page, in red) - then the pictures do not load. Once you have discovered a broken picture, if you refresh - the photos will load again. I have already received a complaint about broken photos.
Please note- there is a resizer script (timthumb.php) and I am hosted on godaddy. I know that the resizer script has something to do with this, but I'm not sure if it's a combination of things....or what exactly. The funny thing is that this will only happen in Safari, so - is there any sort of scripting I can do to bypass whatever it is that Safari does that other browsers don't do when either accessing scripts, or caching pages, or whatever is the cause? I am 99.99% sure that all of my permissions are correct,
Unfortunately, the people at godaddy can't provide me with the Apache error codes that would make this a lot easier. - Notice that if you right click and open a broken photo in a new tab - you will see an error.
If you need to view the script from timthumb, i can provide that.
If you want to take this topic into email, I will resolve the topic as solved once it is so.
Thanks!
Message was edited by: juanvaljuan
Message was edited by: juanvaljuan

is there any sort of scripting I can do to bypass whatever it is that Safari does that other browsers don't do when either accessing scripts, or caching pages, or whatever is the cause?
Maybe, but first we'd have to know the actual cause of the problem, and since most of us aren't web developers, you'll have to determine that first before anyone could possibly help you.
Mulder

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