Here's the fix I've found to auto close a browser window after XP SP2:
http://javascript.about.com/library/scripts/blautowindowclose.htm

Paste the code below into the body of your html page.



<!-- begin close window script -->

<script language="JavaScript">
// Set the following variable to the number of seconds the browser
// will wait before closing the window.
var gWindowCloseWait = 5;

function SetupWindowClose()
{
window.setTimeout("window.close()",gWindowCloseWait*1000);
}

// Body onload utility (supports multiple onload functions)
var gSafeOnload = new Array();
function SafeAddOnload(f)
{
isMac = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac")!=-1) ? true : false;
IEmac = ((document.all)&&(isMac)) ? true : false;
IE4 = ((document.all)&&(navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 4.")!=-1)) ? true : false;
if (IEmac && IE4) // IE 4.5 blows out on testing window.onload
{
window.onload = SafeOnload;
gSafeOnload[gSafeOnload.length] = f;
}
else if (window.onload)
{
if (window.onload != SafeOnload)
{
gSafeOnload[0] = window.onload;
window.onload = SafeOnload;
}
gSafeOnload[gSafeOnload.length] = f;
}
else
window.onload = f;
}
function SafeOnload()
{
for (var i=0;i<gSafeOnload.length;i++)
gSafeOnload[i]();
}

// Call the following with your function as the argument
SafeAddOnload(SetupWindowClose);

</script>

<!-- end close window script -->

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