Oh Jay Why, you simpleton.

Its as easy as creating a temporary function holder, any variable will do. Before setting the document to not hilight, just set your temp variable to the old function. When you're done, just set the documents onselectstart event to your temp var.

Here's some code, in case you're too daft to understand.
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I'm working on some drag-n-drop javascript code for a web app, where the company requires all the users to be on Win XP, using IE 6 (so I don't care about cross-browser compatibility - lucky me!)

I've got the d-n-d code working, and I found code to use to turn off text selection while an object is being moved (which was just plain ugly.) However, I can't figure out how to turn text selection back ON after the object is dropped....