Ok so it looks like if I use the <error-page> and direct it to a non jsf page and from there redirect it to the user's home page everything is good...except in Internet Explorer. Firefox and Chrome will display the home page correctly while IE just sits on
http://server:8080/j_security_check. It looks like it might be a problem with IE not posting correctly to the servlet.
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