Heh. Maybe I'm having a conversation with myself. I can't test this until I get home but I'm thinking that in the affected boxes (sidebar and floated-right content box) I only set the left and right margins, respectively. If I explicitly set the other three margins on each box to zero perhaps that will prevent IE6 from mucking it up?

It is a well documented fact that IE6 has float issues.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ie6+float+margin+bug&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-c1

Me personally. I don't care to code for legacy browsers. Get with the program and update your browsers or deal with ugliness. I don't care what hardware or connection speed issues you're having.

My entire school system (20 largest in the US) is still only allowing us to use IE6. IE 7 & 8 aren't even being considered at this time. I HAVE to consider IE6 when coding.

And forget FF. We have been begging for YEARS to use FF. FF2.0.0.7 was approved under strict controls:

"Approved for CTE E-Commerce Web Design classes only. No support will be provided by Tech Services for conflicts with other browsers or issues created by its use. IE must remain the default web browser on the machine."

The users/teachers of that class cannot even update FF.

So, browsershots.org takes too long to get results back, and I can't afford a second machine just to run IE6 for testing. Are there any better ways to see how a page looks in it?

I'll answer myself. Adobe's service is still free for now, and fast.

It is really shameful that your school system, or any (and I'm sure there are plenty) would put this kind of restriction on teachers & students. While I'm not a fan of the "no child left behind" policy, doesn't that kind of ignorant refusal to allow FREE upgrades go against the core intention of the nclb policy? Don't these administrators realize that we MUST allow our students to have access to the newest software and programming methods on the market in order for them to be remotely competitive with a world-wide market? I could understand (though not agree with) an administrator that doesn't want to spend large amounts of money every year to keep current, but when you are talking about FireFox, Linux, CoffeeCup, and others that have FREE updates, it is just plain dumbing down the kids.

OK I'm done with my 2cents and the soapbox is now open for the next person

The company I (still) work for only recently approved the upgrade to IE7 from IE6. It took them that long to do whatever testing they required before they'd allow it on the corporate network.

You're welcome.

Use Virtual PC. I have IE8 on my Vista machine. Then it also has Virtual PC with two virtual hard drives, one of XP SP3 with IE 6, and one with XP SP3 and IE 7.

These also allow me to use FF2 and Safari 3.

Don't you need a separate license for each copy of Windows you're running in the virtual machines? Microsoft's site says so, anyway.