My dynamic updates to a table do not work correctly unless I have IE debugger open

I have a html table with some buttons and then I have some javascript and jquery to dynacially update the table when a button is pushed. It works all of the time when I have the IE debugger open. I don't even have to have any breakpoints set. But when I do NOT have the debugger open the dynamic does not always work. I tried updating the table using jquery and just javascript and both behave the same. Please help this is very very weird

Here are my calls from javasript :

var tableRow = "<tr><td>" + id + "</td> <td>"+description+</td></tr>"

$('#selectableTable').append(tableRow);

or

            var table = document.getElementById("selectableTable");
            var row = table.insertRow(0);
            var cell1 = row.insertCell(0);
            var cell2 = row.insertCell(1);
            cell1.innerHTML = id;
            cell2.innerHTML = entity;
            cell3.innerHTML = description;