well- more details on the situation...
teh page i want refreshed is actually an iframed page that generates a captcha image.
<iframe id="captcha" height="23px" width="86px" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="../inc_captcha.asp"></iframe>
when the user hits back from the error page to reenter some details on the main page, i want that iframe to refresh, but not teh rest of teh page.