works in Firefox and Chrome, not IE, please help

You’ve got a couple of validation errors that may be contributing to the problem. Also a single CSS error that could be critical.

You’ve also got some custom classes being served to IE (possibly using a conditional comment?), so you may need to check the source code in IE and concentrate on tweaking the IE-specific CSS classes.

Hope that helps.

thanks that CSS error (display clear) was actually one of my attempts to fix the problem that didn’t work. I forgot to remove it. I’ll try the validation problems

My guess is that you’ll also need to tweak the IE-custom classes.

When you say IE custom class, are you referring to IE specific CSS? My theme includes a bit of CSS specific to IE.

body.ie { font-size: 125%; }
	.ie #container, .ie .full_width { font-size: 50%; }
	.ie ul#tabs { width: 100%; }
	.ie input.form_submit { width: auto; overflow: visible; }

/*---:[ IE 6 styles ]:---*/
.ie6 #content, .ie6.sidebar { overflow: hidden; }
.ie6 dl#comment_list dd { border-bottom: 1px dotted #bbb; }
	.ie6 dl#comment_list dl.children dd { border-bottom: 0 }

in fact, if you were referring to that IE CSS, then I don’t think it’s the problem, because the website that uses the same theme and which I got the idea from to put that thin image off to the side has the same custom IE CSS but it doesn’t have the same problem in Internet Explorer as I do.