Opera is the only browser giving trouble with this jQuery statement:

$("select").load("options.html",function() { $(this).val(1); });

The SELECT does not fill with ANY options. It is blank. Worse, I can turn on DragonFly in an effort to trace it down, and the problem disappears. The options are displayed as they should.

I have a .lload function that I use to work around caching problems in IE.  Using this function in Opera does not fix the problem.  I have no reason to believe, therefore, that this is a caching issue.

Anyone come across this?