Internet Explorer

Fascinated by the theme created by Seth Nickell for pgo I created my own [rip-off] version, which I found pretty (this is a static snapshoot).
Unfortunately, because of bad CSS support, in Internet Explorer the layout looks borked (but still readable).

Normal rendering:


IE's borked version:


Well, I don't find myself compelled by the idea to recreate the layout using tables to get it rendered on sub-par browsers.