IE Sidebar dropping issue – PLEASE is there a solution?

I’ve seen MANY posts in the support forums about this, and most of them seem to resolve with either a mystery fix, or someone thinking they know how they fixed it, or just living with this issue in IE. But I have not seen ANY definitive for-sure fix to this.

Using the default Kubrik theme, I have added a two-item-wide table to the sidebar. One half contains my Google AdSense ads, the other contains some images. Pretty straight forward, in the format of:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
adsense code
</td>
<td>
image
</td>
</tr>
</table>

So, nothing fancy. However this completely blows the CSS out of the water with IE, presumably because the content is now wider than the sidebar it’s trying to live in.

I have spent all day (quite literally, ALL-DANG-DAY-AND-NIGHT) beating my head against this and can’t find any rhyme or reason to what’s going on. Every time I think I’ve solved it, the issue mysteriously reappears moments later. I admit I’m not a serious coder, but I can usually logic things like this out. But this one eludes me as it appears to have eluded many before me. It certainly does appear to be CSS related, but I just can’t find the connecting pieces and put them together. The closest to a solution I’ve found is to set the width of the sidebar to auto, but that doesn’t actually solve it, it just makes it go away some times, then on other refreshes it comes back.

I’m going in circles and it’s making me crazy… any CSS expert care to lend a hand in actually solving this darn thing once and for all? Unfortunately I can’t just expect that everyone will start using FireFox. IE is a reality I need to contend with…

Thanks, feel free to email me if you’d prefer, kheldar at flashmail dot com.