Absolutely:

Link to launch the modal panel:

<a4j:commandLink reRender="advancedSearch" oncomplete="Richfaces.showModalPanel('advancedSearch')" title="#{msgs.advancedSearch}" rendered="#{Profile.roleAllowed['BOOK_VIEW_LIST'] and !Profile.manageBook}" >
 <h:graphicImage id="adSearchGraphc" value="/images/arrow_01_UP.gif" alt="#{msgs.advancedSearch}" />
 <h:outputText value="#{msgs.advancedSearch}"/>
 </a4j:commandLink>

Modal panel:

<rich:modalPanel id="advancedSearch" width="220" height="420">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="#{msgs.advancedSearch}" />
 </f:facet>
 <f:facet name="controls">
 <h:graphicImage value="/images/btn_logout.gif" width="15" style="cursor:pointer" onclick="Richfaces.hideModalPanel('advancedSearch')" />
 </f:facet>

 <h:form>

 <a4j:commandLink action="bookList" reRender="bookList" oncomplete="{Richfaces.hideModalPanel('advancedSearch');}" >
 <h:graphicImage class="searchIcon" id="advSearchGraphc" value="/images/btn_search_UP.gif" alt="#{msgs.search}" />
 </a4j:commandLink>

 ......

 </h:form>

 </rich:modalPanel>

As you can see I am calling reRender="bookList" which is the id of the datatable. From what I can tell the problem is something to do with the javascript not running properly on IE and Safari.

<rich:dataTable width="644" id="bookList" rows="12" value="#{Book.list}" var="book">

I can give you anything else you may need.

Thanks,

J