Opening a page & submitting a form at same time, Lo-tech style

I am trying to open a page and submit a form with one click of a submit
button or link.

That would be easy, but I am also making the following restrictions:
	1) Don't use the CGI to open the web page, because the ISP's server
has had problems in the past and not returned the "load this page"
result in a reasonable amount of time.
	2) Don't use JavaScript to open the page because I'm tryinng to work
around customers who either don't have JavaScript activated or who are
running into some weird JS problem that I haven't identified.

Yah, that's overly restrictive. I'll tell customers that JavaScript is
required, but only if I really really have to.

This is my failed attempt (I changed the file names for brevity):

< a href="destination.html" 
onClick="Trade_Info4Downloads.submit(); return true;">
< img src="arrow4.gif">< /a>

That will open the destination page, but it doesn't submit the form.
You can see the above script at:
http://www.scanalytics.com/webtest/downloadEntry_onClick.html

It seems like the link is acting before the onClick handler can act. I
also tried putting the submit method in the body tag's onUnload
handler.
Hmmmm, I can't tell if submit() is working at all!


Ugh. Can someone please tell me how I should go about this? (Assuming
there's a way other than telling the user what I require of them)

TIA

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