Not the best option obviously ... anyone else experience this.  It looks something like this ...

        function getTickets(i,o) {
      //alert(o);
        var getURL = "http://myURL+params";
        var returnContent = $.ajax({
            async:false,
            type:"GET",
            cache:false,
            global:false,
            url:getURL,
            dataType: "html",
            success: function(msg) {
                gotDataBack(msg,'targetContainer');
            }
        }).responseText;
    }

I've tried a number of things ... only seems to work if I use

async:false

if I turn it to async:true, then IE bombs and says ...

"The data necessary to complete the operation was not available yet".  I've done a little searching, but nothing yet. Any ideas? .... TIA!