So, the time has come for me to try and get my site to work in IE. All you folks who read this site using IE will appreciate this (even tough I hate you all and wish you a painful death), but the fact is that sometimes even us devout Firefox, Safari, Mozilla and [other good browser] users will no doubt have to use IE.
Therefore I decided to tackle the task of painstakingly trying to fix the way the site was rendering itself in IE, thinking back towards Gary's post about CSS Rules of Thumb and my subsequent comment on it.