FCKToolbarSpecialCombo AJAX call not working in FF

Hi folks,

I basically customized
http://www.blog.valenticabd.com/tag/javascript
custom combo box code.

Everything works great in I.E.

When the following initliazed function is called
I perform a ajax call to a php page to grab menu items from a database.

// Initialize the Month Combo
var monthCombo = function (name) {
               this.Name = name;
   var xht = getHttpRequest();
   xht.open("POST", 'plugins/monthcombo/getMenuItems.php', true);
   xht.setRequestHeader('Content-type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
   xht.onreadystatechange = callback_myPages;
   
   var objStr =  "";
         
   xht.send(objStr);    
}

If anyone has run ajax calls you know on the onreadystatechange function is called several times during the process
until a 200 status is returned. This is all fine and good and exactly how things should work. The problem
I am having with firefox is my plugin doesn't wait for the return and never puts the items in the combo box.
If i put an alert call right after my xht.send above it will be populated properly.

So my question is this. Does anyone know how to use a wait, timeout, or pause. I've already tried setTimeOut and
my own custom loop to wait X seconds. The former doesn't do any good and the later causes the plugin not to load.

I'm sort of scratching my head here.

J