Safari won't follow some links

i'm developing a site in rails... testing the app locally works fine in firefox and safari. if i deploy to my remote server though, safari refuses to follow some links, and fails to obey some server-side redirects.
the links are nothing out of the ordinary, like
http://myserver.com/blog/2;edit
if i tell safari to open in a new window, then the "Activity" window will show the URL with a status of "error" but no more information. these URLs all point to very plain xhtml pages... nothing i can think of to explain this behavior, especially given that safari has no problem when i'm serving from localhost.
any ideas?
thanks,
jeff

no ideas, but seeing it all the time too. generally it's when i hit a post button or submit certain forms. It does not correct itself going back or whatever. i just lose my post (***** when it's a long one) bounce over to firefox and no problem. give a safari can't open page window.

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