thanks, but i fixed it this afternoon. i erased most of the dreamweaver template part of the page and replaced it with a simple table, then copy/pasted all of my text and stuff back into that. that was way too obvious for 2am this morning.
ie sucks. the dreamweaver wysiwyg looked just like the site did in firefox, but ie thought one whole section belonged below and to the right, rather than just to the right, of another section. (you can tell i'm no web developer...).
but yeah, thanks.
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