Conditional tags

I have tried to use conditional tags in my sidebar.php to show certain content for certain pages

<li><?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() ) { ?>
<h2><?php _e('Om vondewall.com'); ?></h2>
<p class="test">V&auml;lkommen till <strike>v&aring;r</strike> Gustafs lekstuga p&aring; webben.
H&auml;r hittar Tobias och Toves sl&auml;ktingar och v&auml;nner i n&auml;r och fj&auml;rran
bilder s&aring; de kan f&ouml;lja med i vad som h&auml;nder i Tobias och Toves liv.
</li>
<?php } ?>

<li><?php /* If this is the Arkiv */ if ( is_page(42) ) { ?>
<h2><?php _e('Om arkiven'); ?></h2>
<p class="test">H&auml;r kan du leta i v&aring;rt arkiv f&ouml;r att hitta exakt vad du s&ouml;ker.
Arkiven &auml;r sorterad &aring;rs- och m&aring;nadsvis. Du kan &auml;ven g&aring; igenom alla nyheterna baserade p&aring; vilken kategori de har sorterats in under.
</li>
<?php } ?>

etc

In my sidebar I have used this approach set up conditional tags f??r f??r 6 pages.

My idea was to use the tags to show a description based on the page the visitor was viewing.

In Firefox and Safari this aproach works fine. In Interner Explorer, however, the right content in the sidebar is shown but the design is messed up. It seems as Internet Explorer leaves a blank space f??r the conditional tags that are not shown.

Any suggestions on how to solve this?