Hi Frank, I too have this refresh issue. It's cuased by the browser (IE6 in my case) loading the page from it's internal cache. When you click refresh it loads the page from the server and the correct information is shown.
The way to get around it is have some code in the header of the page which tells the browser not to store it in its cache - can;t remember what that code is at the moment (perhaps someone else will enlighten us).
I'm not sure about Logicians hack. I'm running my own news script on
my homepage. Only thing to be carefull with is the paths.
Darren.