> I apologise for miss using the word refresh. The re-appearing sidebar was also seen with the automatic
> reload, I have implemented your fix here and it now works great!

Still did not get your point. Why is there "automatic reload"? The status page should not "completely reload" any more. 
Instead, all data is fetched in the background using AJAX calls, and only the data on the page is updated once per second. If 
there is a "complete reload", something is wrong.

Stefan