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Ben & Dion picked up my problems with the "A" in AJAX, and got some good comments. I especially like the closure idea.

Another thing I found useful (since I'm locking the UI) is the following:

document.getElementById('tree').style.cursor = 'wait';
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document.getElementById('tree').style.cursor = 'auto';