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What’s the link to your page? It can be helpful to see this style-sheet in use so we can see what’s broken.
Also, try formatting the CSS with spaces after all “;” characters and before all “{}” characters. That could be causing some issues. As in

a:link {
text-decoration:underline;
color:#eee;
border:none;
}

But, most importantly, give us a link to the page that’s causing problems, otherwise we can really diagnose

ridiculous z-index settings are not a big deal; it’s actually helpful to set the highest layer a long distance (numerically) from the layer below it. It would be too easy to put things in the wrong order if it were 1,2,3,4,etc. It’s safer to use 1000, 2000, etc.
In any case, I did some research on the Strawpoll, and their not using any hacks for the transparencies. Here’s a quote from the developer’s site:

“The site only works in modern browsers that support transparent PNGs and Javascript (that means no IE6!).”

Does anyone have ideas about the mismatched position of the footer from browser to browser? Please refer to original post, above.

I like that strawpoll site, it’s pretty slick! There’s one major problem though: it’s broken on IE 6! It looks like they have all Style Sheets disabled on IE6 browsers. But otherwise, I can see some good stuff happening. Also, they aren’t working within wordpress, so it’s not as tricky concerning location of footers inside .php includes, etc.
I am of course going to delete comments when this works; I will go delete the duplicate .htc bit in the style sheets, thank you for finding that!

Anyone else have ideaS?