Hi Chris,
I just tested this with IE 6, 7 and 8 and FF 2.0.17 and 3.0.3 and the behavior is the same for each of this browsers. Note that you can close the Calendar popup by pressing 'Escape' if you do not want to select a date. I hope this helps.
Sincerely yours,
Pavel
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