window.status image map on IE 5 problem

This should be easy, but it's not working in IE5 (on PC). Works on everything else:

the window.status function as follows does not work on IE 5:
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<map name="some_map">
<AREA shape="rect" href="#" coords="1,1,10,10" onMouseOver="window.status='Message one goes here'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true">
<AREA shape="rect" href="#" coords="12,1,22,10" onMouseOver="window.status='Message two goes here'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true">
</map>

<img src="someimage.gif" usemap="#some_map">
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Anybody have a solution? It does not work on IE 5... so make sure you test your solution on that browser. Thanks...

have had the same problem, but solved it by not using href="#".
Do ask me how/why but
href="javascript:acompletelydifferentfunctio()" onMouseOver="........" onMouseOut="...."

Anyhow, try to change the href="#" to something else.

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¬ peterbe.com ¬

Just tried it with no success. The only way I've been able to get IE5 to work is to take out the 'href="whatever"'... but then none of the other browsers recognize the image map.

Very frustrating. If anybody knows why this is happening and knows a solution... well, post away.

Thanks.