logout when already logged out

[Phil Pishioneri <pgp@xxxxxxx>]

During a discussion with one of our graphic folks who is working on our 
customized pages, an interesting point came up:

When one is sitting on the verify logout page, and logs out elsewhere 
(either a time-out, or by manually going through logout in another 
window), and then attempts to logout of the first page, you get an error 
page with the message

> Logout failed. Perhaps you were not logged-in?


While true at one level, is it really a problem?

If you are actually logged out (vs. some internal problem preventing 
logouts), mightn't it be less confusing for the client if the code just 
redirected back to the main page (as it does for a successful logout)?

-Phil