setInterval IE

hi,
it was quite uncanny visiting this site for the first time and being welcomed by your scrolling login,

i am at the moment trying to put together something similar,
the site I am building is an admistrative site for gun-licencing operators consisting of various elaborate forms to fill in for merging to various licencing applications, because some of the forms are really long, i had to add save and edit buttons at regular intervals, but I had seen a divider that scrolls with the page somewhere before, and decided I was going to try to script one myself, so that i could have the save/edit buttons run alongside the form,
so the story goes...
basically to set up the scrolling div wasnt too complicated until I checked it out in my IE6 browser basically setInterval wasn't working so well,actually it only passed once and stopped,after a frustrating search on the topic, my end call looked something like this

I eventually scrapped this, as IE6 just wasn't having fun,
I did decide on alternative solution which I think will work ok, but would like some advice on the above topic and perhaps on my solution,

basically what I have done instead is to call setTimeout, and I call my function that I was calling with setInterval,
but I made it into a recursive function with an option to abort as well, so it just keeps doin its job until it gets told to stop, which is perfect because I don't really need a delay on my scrolling div.

..in hindsight and as i am just busy thinking, perhaps, because IE6 at least reads setInterval once I could add setInterval as the recursive call, but that might actually do some nasty things if i think about it, a recursive setInterval that doesnt stop recursing on itself,eeek,

anyway any advice on getting setInterval working on IE6 most appreciated.

i take that back, a recursive function aint goin to work, memory runs out,he,he,going to have to work onthis a bit more,aargh, me thinks two functions might do the trick, gonna go give that a bash.

finally i solved my problem,

i eventually stripped the problem down to its essentials, a basic call to setInterval and the bare minimum in the function,
that is when i realised the problem,

basically my function polls for the innerHTML value of a divider,
the first creation of this divider was sitting up in my php code, and for some reason the setInterval was firing before it had been created and thus any call to the 'non-existent' div was giving an error,

so what i did was this (simplified):



so that i force php to create the divider before calling setInterval,
also, I moved all of this to the bottom of the page, for some reason that helps too,

from here on in i can manipulate the divs innerHTML with other events, and the polling function will do the relative task.
and for anybody interest here is the code for the scroller,you might want to change the interval;


now what i want to work on is create a delayed slide effect between old position and new position.Any advice?