Site not working - for only one one user. Any ideas?

My web site http://album.dweeb.org, which uses xbCollapsibleLists.js
to build a cascading menu in the left portion of a framed display.
I've had this site up and working for six months now, and except when
I've done something stupid, it's always worked fine.

Now, I've got one guy who cannot view the menu at all under IE 6.0,
NS 7, or Opera 7 on his machine running XP Pro version 5.1.2600, and
the more he tries to figure it out, the more the problem seems to be
unique to my site. He can view the xbCollapsibleLists.js demo site at

http://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/examples/2001/xbCollapsibleLists/e...ples/ba

just fine, which uses exactly the same javascript. We've tried a
number of things, including

- verifying that javascript is enabled on his machine. He went to
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/purchas/vbs/HelpJavaEnable.htm
and the button tells him that javascript is enabled.

- verifying that he doesn't have ad-killer software running. He
*can* view the popup images on all of my pages (which also uses
javascript)

- disabling any and all IE security settings on his machine

- re-registering comcat.dll and a bunch of others that apparently
can become unregistered and cause problems with javascript

- I updated the js on my site to exactly match the js on the
sample site above (except for two lines, where I moved false.gif
and true.gif to a sub-directory, and the specifics of the menu)

- he verified that IE doesn't report any errors with the page.

Nothing has worked. But nobody else is seeing this problem. But he
is only seeing problems with my site, and then only one page of my
site. He upgraded his machine in May from WinME to XP Pro, and he
thinks the page stopped working about then. He keeps insisting that
the MS decision to remove the java VM from new versions of XP may be
the source of the problem. I keep insisting that if the sample site
and other javascript works for him, that's not the problem.

One other person ran my site through the W3C RDF Validation Service,
which apparently complained that my LINK tags at the top aren't
closed. But I haven't been able to find a web reference anywhere that
says that a LINK close tag even exists, so I don't buy that.

Does anyone else have a problem viewing the site in question? If
you're not sure, it should look like this:

http://album.dweeb.org/siteshot.jpg

Does anyone have any ideas? Because I'm running out of ideas at
this point. Thanks in advance.

Jim

griffith DeleteThis @dweeb.org (Jim Griffith) wrote in message news:<f788a984.0307031058.74b7c04f DeleteThis @posting.google.com>...
 > My web site <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://album.dweeb.org," target="_blank">http://album.dweeb.org,</a> which uses xbCollapsibleLists.js
 > to build a cascading menu in the left portion of a framed display.
 > I've had this site up and working for six months now, and except when
 > I've done something stupid, it's always worked fine.

Sigh. Never mind. After having tried to figure it out for the better
part of a day, I found and fixed it ten minutes after posting this. It
seems my menu page was missing a closing comment tag right before the
/SCRIPT encapsulating the javascript.

Strangely, none of the browsers reported this as an error, and it worked
for most people with most browsers regardless. I only found it because
a second guy finally came along and said "it doesn't work for me either,
and I'm seeing an 'init not defined' message". I'm a little surprised
that omitting the closing comment wouldn't break the site for everyone.
Apparently, something in the very latest OS releases seems to treat it
as an error, when it wasn't one before.

Jim<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->