I have the same situation here, but by using a different command I can circumvent it.
iceweasel -new-tab http://www.debian.org opens two tabs, but iceweasel -remote "openurl(http://www.debian.org,new-tab)" just opens one (as expected). Jörg -- Jörg Schütter http://www.schuetter.org/joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://the-brights.net/ http://badvista.fsf.org/