Some users are still having problems with the pop-up login. I think they are actually getting 403s because of the CSRF protection. So I have modified the base template to always have a javascript variable called csrf_token available when they aren't logged in. The ajax_login.js script was then modified to send this value with the ajax post. Fingers crossed.

"""urls for the contact application"""
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

urlpatterns = patterns('contact.views',
   url(r'^$', 'contact_form', name='contact-form'),
   (r'^thanks/$', 'contact_thanks'),
)