clearing history and disabling back and forward buttons

[B Bhutta]

Hi,
I want to disable the back and forward button. Currently the techinque I am using is on my html pages, I am using an onload method to call my clearHistory method which has the following code:
history.forward();
But this techinque, created a flicker when I press the back button. What I mean is, when I press back button, it goes to previous page and come back to same page.
Is there any better way to avoid this flickering!
Thanks for the help.
Thanks.

[Eric Pascarello]

no there is no way to do it.
look intolocation.replace instead of normal links, it covers up the last page in the history, but removing the back button pisses people off!