I would first like to heap praises on the developers of this calendar.

I am getting errors in IE6, no surprise I am sure. What I want to do is have no button to open the calendar and just open the calendar when the date input field has the recieves the focus or when it is clicked. The following configuration and code works fine in FireFox but has strange behavior in IE6. This is how I setup the calendar code in my html file, which does validate:

<label for="date1">*Action Date:</label>
<input tabindex="5" onclick="openTheCalendar('date1');" type="text" size="12" id="date1" name="date1" value="" >
<script type="text/javascript">
Calendar.setup({
inputField : "date1",
ifFormat : "%m/%d/%Y",
eventName : "focus",
align : "BR"
});
</script><noscript><span>Dates should be entered following this format: mm/dd/yyyy</span></noscript>

The function openTheCalendar is defined in an included script file, here is the definition:
<script>
function openTheCalendar(cont)
{
var field= document.getElementById(cont);
var val= field.value;
if(val != null && val != '')
{
if( window.calendar != null && window.calendar != 'undefined')
{
window.calendar.parseDate(val);
window.calendar.showAtElement(cont,'BR');
}
}
else
{
if( window.calendar != null && window.calendar != 'undefined')
{
window.calendar.showAtElement(cont,'BR');
}
}
return false;
}</script>

In IE I get nothing when I tab to the control however when I click on the control I get some errors, and no calendar pops up but when I click on the icon in the lower left hand corner of the window to look at the error description and then close the pointless dialog that opens the calendar appears. If I remove the onclick function from the input element the calendar opens without errors when onfocus is fired. Advice Please.

sorry for the super long sentence.