Thanks to "Jorge" for the answer to my question earlier. I’ve got this implemented here, and wouldn’t you know it — it works!
The trick is to detect whether the browser is MSIE on Windows, and if so then to add a snippet of JavaScript to the page that scrolls to the end of the list:
function window.onload () {document.all["status"].scrollIntoView();}
Of course I also had to remove the #status anchor from the URL, but that wass trivial with the way I had the page coded. Thanks.
Now for a little code clean-up, some docs and a beta release…