bad URL auto-redirect and page pauses

Hi:

I'm writing a navigation system that links html pages from one to the next. The code should delay for about 10 seconds before moving to the next page, and if the user wants to pause on the current page, they can click an image to delay the refresh inevitably.

I used innerHTML to write "<META refresh=100000...>" but this didn't work since the original META tag (set to 10 seconds) take precidence over newly written, longer METAs.

Any ideas?

Thanks
//ryan