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Here's something to look out for. I play on two computers. Yesterday I returned to computer #2 and found one of my games up. To bring it up to date, instead of clicking the refresh board link on the game page I clicked the browser refresh button. To my horror when the game refreshed I found that a move had been made for me, and a very bad move at that. I don't know what state the game was in when I hit refresh (maybe I had selected a move but not committed it?).
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The board refresh is just a link to the same page so should do exactly what the browser refresh does.
This would be odd behaviour indeed! However, the most likely scenario is that computer #2 had a cached version of the board (or the game page open for a while). That would imply that you had already moved on computer #1 but forgot. When you clicked the refresh on #2, the board updated itself.
I say 'likely' but that would require some strange things too. You would have had to have forgotten that you moved and you don't have many games going! You would have had to be capable of doing such a bad move! Also, my experience with Queen Alice is that it has some auto refreshing code. Each day the chess pieces seem to lag as they are re-downloaded ... possibly something to do with the ads. This makes a cached game page less likely.
That said, I might ask why you thought it necessary to refresh a page that had just been served to you. It would seem that you knew the page was actually not new and might be outdated. Possibly, at least subconsciously, you already knew that you had moved or that there was some chance of this? 
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Blutigeroo, the page had not just been served to me - it was sitting in the state that I had left it a few days before (I had not powered down the computer). I'm sure that the state of the game was not up to date. One other detail I should mention is that after I hit refresh a dialogue box came up. I don't remember the message (it seemed generic), but I had to click "okay" to proceed.
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How sure are you that you didn't make the move on computer #1?
The message you would have seen is the standard one that one gets when stopping the auto refresh after a move has been made. In that case the message tells you it is not your turn, I think. Does that sound right? You can duplicate the message by hitting Esc after making a move, preventing an update ... then tring to make another move. I think many players would have tried that "take back" routine! 
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I asked my opponent when the move was made and he confirmed that it happened when I thought it did. As for the message that popped up, I don't think it's the one you are referring to, because I've seen that one many times, and it appears within the QA page. The message may have been something like "do you want to resend the data?" It appeared in a pop up window, and would have been generated by the browser, not Queen Alice.
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Okay, I know which one you mean. It seems to me that playing on the two computers could not be part of it.
I don't think I've ever seen that "resend" message on Queen Alice. Also, I have to correct myself about the browser refresh. Unlike the game board refresh which does not re-download graphics, the browser refresh seems to do it every time. Now I'm wondering how the browser refresh (Ctrl+R) is different to F5 (on Firefox anyhow).
I've tried a few combinations to duplicate the effect but with no luck. I'm going to leave one of my game boards up for a few hours and see what happens.
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