[jQuery] ui.datepicker causes IE "operation aborted"

[Charles Johnson]

I believe this bug was supposed to have been fixed in the move from
jQuery Calendar to ui.datepicker, but I'm still seeing sporadic
"Operation Aborted" errors in Internet Explorer, both 6 and 7, when
the datepicker is initialized. Frustrating problem because it's very
intermittent.

The code I'm using is pretty simple; in the HTML:

<input type="text" size="1" id="calendarDaily" value=""
readonly="readonly" />

Then in the $(document).ready function, I instantiate the datepicker
with this:

$('#calendarDaily').datepicker({
        showOn: 'button',
        speed: 'fast',
        buttonImageOnly: true,
        buttonImage: '/dailyarchives.jpg',
        buttonText: 'Calendar',
        minDate: new Date(2001, 2 - 1, 7),
        dateFormat: 'YMD-',
        onSelect: function(thedate) {
                eval("parent.location='/index.php?date=" + thedate + "'");
        }
});

Works fine in all flavors of Mozilla/Firefox, and in Safari -- IE is
the only problem.