onclick event doesn’t fire with CTL-click

I am using a simple ajax routine to notify a server of click thrus. This routine passes information about each link on a page when it is clicked to the server which logs information about the click thru. The code works fine unless the CTL key is pressed as someone might do in order to open the link in a new window/tab. Firerfox handles this situation fine. But IE does NOT fire the onclick() routine in this instance.
This appears to be a problem inherent in every version of IE I have tested so…
onclick event doesn't fire with CTL-click

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