Finestripes 1.0 Issue with IE.

Hello All,

I have an issue with the FineStripes 1.0 theme (With some modifications), using WordPress 2.3.1 on my website. I made some modifications to the theme, but nothing I did actually caused the problem (I uploaded a stock copy of the theme and tested it to make sure).

The basic issue is easy enough to see by looking at the site–in Firefox, it looks fine. In IE, on the homepage (And ONLY the home page), the sidebar is way the heck at the bottom of the content. This only happens on the homepage; everything else is fine.

Here’s the main page template:

<?php include('header.php'); ?>
<div id="main">
      <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       <div class="post">
        <div class="title" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><h2>
         <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
          <?php the_title(); ?>
         </a></h2></div>
        <div class="posted"><?php the_time('l j F Y',display); ?></div>
	    <div class="storycontent">
         <?php the_content(__('(Continue reading...)')); ?>
        </div>
<div class="meta">
	Posted by <?php the_author() ?><?php edit_post_link('Edit',' / '); ?>
          <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
         <?php _e("/ Tags:"); ?><?php the_category(' and') ?><br/>
         <a href="<?php the_permalink();?>" rel="bookmark"><?php comments_number('No comments', '1   Comment', '% Comments' );?></a>/
         <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">Leave a Comment</a>
</div>
       </div> <!-- Closes the post div-->
<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
       <div class="space"></div>
	   <?php endwhile; else: ?>
       <?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
       <?php endif; ?>
<?php include('navigation.php'); ?>
</div> <!-- Closes the main div-->
</div> <!-- Closes the left div-->
<?php include('sidebar.php'); ?>
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>
</div> <!-- Closes the container div-->

And here’s another area of the site, which works properly:

<?php include "header.php"; ?>
<div id="main">
    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
      <div class="info"><?php single_cat_title('browsing ', 'display'); ?></div>
      <br />
      <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<div class="post">
        <div class="title" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><h2>
         <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
          <?php the_title(); ?>
         </a></h2>
        </div>
	<div class="posted"><?php _e("Posted on "); ?>
        <?php the_time('l j F Y',display); ?></div>
	    <div class="storycontent">
         <?php the_content(__('(Continue reading...)')); ?>
        </div>
<div class="meta">
	Posted by <?php the_author() ?><?php edit_post_link('Edit',' / '); ?>
          <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
         <?php _e("/ Tags:"); ?><?php the_category(' and') ?><br/>
         <a href="<?php the_permalink();?>" rel="bookmark"><?php comments_number('No comments', '1   Comment', '% Comments' );?></a>/
         <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">Leave a Comment</a>
</div>
       </div> <!-- Closes the post div-->
       <div class="space"></div>
      <?php endwhile; ?>
     <?php else : ?>
    <div class="post">
        <div class="title" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><h2>
         Sorry, but no post found</h2>
        </div>
    </div>
    <?php endif; ?>

 <?php include('navigation.php'); ?>

</div> <!-- Closes the main div-->
</div> <!-- Closes the leftcolumn div-->
<?php include('sidebar.php'); ?>
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>

I note an extra </div> in the main template (Actually, strictly speaking I think every other section is missing a </div>, but removing it didn’t do anything. Is there something else I can try? Is it a problem with the theme and WordPress 2.3.1? Is the problem with IE and not the code (My solution for now is to tell people “Get Firefox”, but this won’t work for people who, for instance, may be goofing off at work and can only use IE).

Thanks for any help you can give.