Browser Wars IV -- This Time, It's Personal

Yeah, so I'm working on this blog faithfully, then I manage to check it out in something other than Firefox for Windows. !Eeek!

So disclaimer: I am not an HTML jockey. Any problems you may be experiencing with weird formatting and disappearing backgrounds are beyond my control because my knowledge of HTML begins and ends with a book I read in 1998. However, if you have any suggestions on how I can fix them for IE users, please email me.

UPDATE: It appears the issue may be incomplete support of CSS in IE, which is an ongoing issue. Don't think there's much I can do about it so we'll all just have to deal. Unless someone swoops in to the rescue. >hint<