how can facebox modal window be completely closed?

[samvb]

In my JS, I am having this function that opens a facebox modal:

$.facebox('<img src="loading.gif">');

After my ajax process completes, the modal is closed.

Now, i have a link on the same page with rel="facebox" attribute. If I click the link, a loading.gif appeas instead of the file specified in href attribute. If I reload the page, the link does open the target link in the href attribute.

I looked at the facebox page but found nothing. the trigger.close() seems just to hide it, instead of destroying that particular instance fully.

Any tips?