IE7 Screws my Layout (puts gun in mouth)

Hey guys. IE7 adds a margin on the top of the sidebars in a
standard, out-of-the-box 3 column CSS layout. If I take Sidebar 1,
zero out all margin and padding, and stick an image or text or
anything at the beginning of the sidebar, it previews in IE7 with a
margin on top, while in Firefox and others, it is, of course,
perfect. How can I make this stupid margin above the sidebar go
away? It is ugly and screwing up my whole barely-built site.

Are you talking about THIS margin?
.thrColFixHdr #sidebar1 {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must
be given */
width: 160px; /* the background color will be displayed for
the length of
the
content in the column, but no further */
padding: 0; /* padding keeps the content of the div away
from the edges */
margin-top: 20px;
-----------------^^^^
background-color: #EBEBEB;
background-image:
url(Main%20Images%20Folder/LeftSidebarBackground.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
margin-left: 7px;
(by the way, it's not a great idea to use spaces in your
file/pathnames)
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> Ok; here's the code. I've inserted an image into the
left sidebar of the
> layout- the extra margin appears over this in IE7. Even
if there is
> nothing
> there, it happens anyway. Thanks for the help everybody
- you're the
> best!
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> </head>
>
> <body class="thrColFixHdr">
>
> <div id="container">
> <div id="header">
> <h1><img src="Main Images
Folder/Banner770Pix.jpg" width="770"
> height="151" alt="bannertop" /></h1>
> </div>
> <div id="sidebar1"><img src="Main Images
Folder/indy4_button.jpg"
> alt="button1" width="160" height="158" /></div>
> <div id="sidebar2">
> 
> </div>
> <div id="mainContent">
> <h1> Main Content </h1>
> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
adipiscing elit. Praesent
> aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla
fermentum diam, at
> nonummy
> quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id,
molestie in,
> commodo
> porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque
ornare risus quis
> ligula.
> Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum
adipiscing. Aenean
> sagittis.
> Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in,
vulputate at, odio.
> Donec et
> ipsum et sapien vehicula nonummy. Suspendisse potenti.
</p>
> <h2>H2 level heading </h2>
> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
adipiscing elit. Praesent
> aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla
fermentum diam, at
> nonummy
> quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id,
molestie in,
> commodo
> porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque
ornare risus quis
> ligula.
> Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum
adipiscing. Aenean
> sagittis.
> Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in,
vulputate at, odio.</p>
> </div>
> <br
> class="clearfloat" />
> <div id="footer">
> <p>Footer</p>
> </div>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
>

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So since I cannot boot normally from any partition or disk I decided to boot into single-user mode.
I did the fsck -fy thing and it told me everything was ok. I had also previously installed applejack and I ran that and short of correcting a few permissions and dumping some unneeded caches it came back with a system OK.
At my wits end I booted into target disk mode and ran Disk Warrior on both the original half installed OS partition and the back up emergency boot up partition from my laptop. Again, everything OK. Hoped against hope that I could actually install an OS onto my G5 from my laptop but I was only given the option of being able to do it from my laptop with the Leopard disk and it would only allow me to do it if I used Disk Utility to completely format that drive first. No, thanks.
Re-attempt to boot G5. Failure. So now I turn to hardware. Disconnected everything beside the keyboard and mouse. Try again. Fail. Pulled a couple sticks of Crucial memory out of the machine and left the stock RAM. No dice. Pressed the small power unit reset button under the RAM slots. No change. Zapped the PRAM. Still nothing. Try to boot in Safe mode holding down shift key. Doesn't work.
It seems to me if I can't even get the machine to boot from the Install disk that there is something going on that is much more major than software issues.
Bad motherboard? Any ideas? Because I'm all out of ideas.

Brother, Sound74, I thought I was the only one pulling the hair out of my chest one by one the past two days. Your situation is very similar to mine, and I'm just as clueless as you are. I started getting kernel panic screens, then nothing on boot, until finally I brought it to the local genius bar. They ran all the usual software/hardware tests, updated Tiger to 10.4.11, recommended I buy Leopard and do an erase-install. My computer, of course, was working absolutely fine by this point. I bought Leopard, came home, backed everything up, then tried to install the new OS. Like in your case, it just up and quit half-way through. Screen went black and a "No DVI Signal" message came on my display (it does this when I turn it on without first turning on the computer).
So I thought, well, maybe it takes a really long time to erase-install, and the monitor is just waiting for things to kick back in. I've always upgrade-installed before, so I couldn't tell if this was normal or not. But about half an hour later, my fans kicked in so fast I thought I had a P-51 Mustang taking off in my studio. I waited a bit more and finally force-shut-down my system. Not knowing what to expect, I nervously tried to re-boot.
Nothing. Zip. I can't safe boot, I can't boot from the installer disc, etc. The only thing I can do is the option-key thing whereby you choose the startup disc. And of course, it only gives the Leopard install disc as an option, because now the entire HD has been erased! But when I choose the Leopard disc, of course it doesn't work.
So I have a nice $3000 paperweight sitting in my studio. I guess I'll have to bring it back to the Mac store, where if it costs more than $300 to fix, I'm going to say screw it and put that dough toward a new iMac.
Sorry I couldn't provide any helpful info, but I just wanted you to know you're not alone in suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous technology.
Keep me posted on any solutions you discover, and I'll do the same.
Noochy1
PS My applecare expired a month ago! AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! **** Murphy and his stupid laws.

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