i think the whole idea of a secure page is so that you can't just access it via scripting or other methods like it. I think getting the value of it will have to be done another way. I'm thinking a server side scripting language, but it would have to administer the page to have access to it. I'm pretty sure from what you said ie complains about that javascript is not going to provide an answer.
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