where did you find the code to set the focus on different tabs? I have yet to find that. you can open all of the pages in different tabs? what's the link to that script?
if the script is actually opening each tab individually and not cheating (like finding a way to code the "re-open last browser session" method using the IE object), then that tells you there *is* a way to change the focus to different tabs with the ie object.
once you find where that code is at in your script, it's all javascript from there. and this thread will tell you how to do the rest:
http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/...d.php?t=176968