cfinput - onBlur acts like onKeyDown/onKeyPress

Hello, everyone.

I have a form with one cfinput type="text" that is using a JavaScript function to blur the input the put focus back on to the input, each time it blurs it calls a JavaScript function that acts like Google's instant search (pulls data from database with each keystroke).

The problem is: in both FF and IE7, if you do NOT touch any keys on the keyboard and simply use the mouse to click outside the input, it acts as if you typed a key on the keyboard and it activates the JS function for the instant search.  This is problematic, as if you just type "bar" into the field and results start showing, the second you go to click on one of the links, it re-does the search for whatever is in the input field and retrieves the same data that is already there.

Is there a way to prevent the JS function from being called whenever one just clicks outside the input field?

Thanks,

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