Ok. I sat down this evening with the aim of amending the theme to allow it to work equally well in the accursed IE as well as Firefox, Mozilla, Konq. etc.
I struggled for an hour, and finally decided to go back to basics. I mocked up a set of DIV s that would do what I wanted on Firefox and IE.
I used those as the basis for the main layout.
Found lots of snags and bashed them flat.
Until but one snag remained (The search bar is offset to the right in IE, AND NO OTHER!)
After trying a number of things, including a ’orrible hack proposed by some fiendishly clever person out on the ’net.
Long story short, I was not able to completely fix it.
Its close, but no cigar.
It really ruins the look when using IE, but all I can suggest is, if it bugs you, USE A BETTER BROWSER.
And with that, I bid you good night.