OK this is a question for an internal (intranet) application I am working on:

You will see by my wording that "NOTHING" is set in stone yet. I think I want to create an application, that is formated with a single page that has window blocks that show the logs of a process at various stages. I "think" I would like it to be a single dashboard style app with just about as much info as you can jam into one page. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to have different text boxes refresh on the page ( psuedo live ) without having the whole page refresh (http-equiv content=refresh) or without using java applets.

Just refresh the page every 20 seconds or something, save you an incredible amount of time.
Especially considering how many people do you really think are going to be looking @ the Intranet at any given time?