Page not refreshing…ever!

Hi,

I am new to WordPress.

We have an app that captures customer calls. Call info is stored in a different MYSQL DB, same WP server. On my blog, I have created a new page called “Outstanding calls” so it displays the results of a query from the customer calls DB.

I have successfully created a PHP script that performs what I describe here ; it displays the results in a HTML table.

Using the default theme, I customized page.php like so

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Default_Theme
 */

get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn" role="main">
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?><?php echo 'as of today, ' ;?><?php the_date(); ?></h2><br />        <?php wp_reset_query();
if (is_page('What we are working on...')) {
            $con = mysql_connect("some_host", "some_username","some_password") ;
            if (!$con) {
                die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
            }
            mysql_select_db("some_db", $con) or die ("Couldn't select the database.");
            $result = mysql_query("select * from cases where status='Open' order by due_by asc");
            echo '<table id="mytable"><thead>
<tr>
<th>Request</th>
<th>Requester</th>
<th>Created On</th>
<th>Due By</th>
</tr></font></thead><tbody>';
            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
                echo '<tr><td id="mytd">'
                        . $row['request_title'] . '</td><td id="mytd">'
                        . $row['requester'] . '</td><td id="mytd">'
                        . $row['created_on'] . '</td><td id="mytd">'
                        . $row['due_by'] . '</td>'
                        . '</tr>';
            }
            echo '</tbody></table>';
            mysql_close($con);
} ?>
    </div>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

and it works great!

Problem is that the page never refreshes! Ever! I run my PHP script from the command line and see new open cases. How can I make this page refresh? I tried using “wp_reset_query()” but it had no effect….

Could it be because I am using permalinks?

I welcome your input. Thanks,

Al.