kwebdesktop vs. meta refresh

Hi! I have a question regarding kwebdesktop. If kwebdesktop should fetch a page that has a meta refresh header line (e.g. <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="300">) then kwebdesktop doesn't return and seems to hang. I assume that khtml is waiting for the refresh event. Thus I cannot take a webpage as desktop-background if this page has such an entry. This is even worse, because if you start KDE, kdesktop is waiting for kwebdesktop to finish, before it shows the icons etc. So you only have the grey X background. Is there a known workaround? Thanks, Daniel