When you try in Moodle 1.5.3 (in IE6) to download grades from the gradebook in textformat, it fails. Adding these lines in /grade/lib.php to the headerblock for .txt at line 1268 solves here the problem.
1268: header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate,post-check=0,pre-check=0");
header("Pragma: public");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate,post-check=0,pre-check=0");
header("Pragma: public");