Looks fine in FF and Safari, disaster in IE8

http://www.jdcdemo.com/d4/index.html
This site displays as I set it up in FF and Safari for Windows. In IE8, it is a disaster. The menu spacing is doubled and the main image is way down in the page. I'm guessing it is a CSS and/or Doctype problem, but have not figured it out. Can someone help??
Thanks in advance,
Joe

Give your page a valid document type. As it stands now, you're page is in Quirks Mode which produces unexpected results.
Modify > Page Properties > Title/Encoding. Select either HTML or XHTML transitional.
Also, I'm not sure you need Float:Right on your #mainContent division.
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