I've got to run as I'm leaving for a weekend trip, so this will be short.

It works!!! 

I'll post the solution after the weekend, and I'll fix the bad link on yesterday's entry. For now, you, my vast audience of dedicated readers (yeah right), will have to content yourself with a link to the working (?) page: clicky [Edit: Link removed. See July 25's post for a screenshot of the final (?) version.]

A great quote from someone who looked at my problem yesterday and couldn't figure it out either:

"on the bright side, IE 7 is almost here. and looking at it, i'm hopeful that IE 8 will finally fix current problems."