possible solution - thoughts please
ok so here is where i am at on this... first let me explain the situation as to why i made changes (this applies to mine) ...
default refresh button that came with the download uses the same link to refresh, meaning that if im on the closed ticket display page and i click the refresh button (that is located on the right side middle of the page) it refreshes back to the home ticket page and does not refresh the current closed ticket page (for some reason)
also because i wanted to change to look of the button to bring it more streamline with the color scheme..
so here is what i did...
in this section here(include/staff/tickets.inc.php) (right under the (search form end) as you can see i commented out the TD for the refresh button..
SEARCH FORM END
<div style="margin-bottom">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align="center">
<tr>
<td width="80%" class="msg" > <b><?=$showing?> <?=$results_type?></b></td>
some this section comnted out to relocate the refresh button to bottom
<td nowrap style="text-align;padding-right;">
<a href=""><img src="images/refresh.gif" alt="Refresh" border=0></a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
then i went down toward the very bottom of the page and i put this in, as you can see right after the delete button code..
<input class="button" type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete"
onClick=' return confirm("Are you sure you want to DELETE selected tickets?");'>
<?}?>
added this line in relocation of refresh button
<button onClick="history.go(0)" class="button">Refresh</button>
</td></tr>
<? }
now its works great and it also follows the look of the page as you can see by the pic here.

so it looks great and works great, it refreshes the current page, but i do have a concern !!! and that is if someone refreshes enough then the page might get cached and i dont want that, i want the page reloaded fresh each time, so here is my question, should I and can I include this following script at the top of (include/staff/tickets.inc.php) to keep it from caching and will it have any neg affects? or is there a better solution.
<?php
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05 GMT"); // Date in the past
?>