Still working on the reload issue for the blogfessional. The JS reload script didn't seem to solve the problem. I had the feeling that the pragma header might help and this seems to have done the trick:
<META Http-Equiv="Cache-Control" Content="no-cache" />
<META Http-Equiv="Pragma" Content="no-cache" />
<META Http-Equiv="Expires" Content="0" />
But I'm still not perfectly clear on why both tags are needed -- think I read somewhere it has something to do with browser inconsistencies -- and I'm not patient enough right now to learn this inside and out.