Security Questions are getting cached

Hi,
We recently discovered that our security authentication answers are frequently cached by web browsers. Is there something we can do on the server side to stop this? We have several public terminals used for claiming accounts and changing passwords, etc.. When a user loads the change user answers form, and starts to type in an answer, the form will try to auto-complete the answer, and display other similar answers that people have submitted.
I tried setting the autocomplete property, but IDM does not support it on text fields it seems. I then changed the fields to html elements and modified them so their html output is the same as when they were text field objects. However, the form stopped working then. It no longer saves answers if I do that.
How have people addressed this before? It seems like it would be a security concern for any IDM installation that has a public terminal available for changing passwords / etc..
Thanks,
Jim

There are a few browser level settings I found that help. In firefox you can choose a setting that is title something like "Remember form fields and search bar entries". Making sure it is not checked will stop the auto complete. In IE there is a "Do not cache data from a secure connection" or something similar. That helps to. At the html level there is also an attribute for form elements called autocomplete. So you can set autocomplete=off for the elements.
John, the form I am working with is security questions. The name of the fields are the IDs of the questions. So I can't really make them dynamic.
The fix wasn't the greatest. IDM does not yet support the autocomplete attribute. When I manually added it to the text form field object, it generated an error when I viewed the form. When I changed the field object to an html object, and dictated the html, the workflow to save the answers stopped working. Ultimately I had to do a search and replace in the html in the JSP to add the autocomplete attribute.

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