Same story with a different twist. In my case it was because of graphicImage tag. I replaced it with a plain HTML img tag and it stopped requesting the same page twice. I am still using JSF 1.1 RI. So hopefully this has been taken care of in JSF 1.2.
Hope this helps some one,
-H
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