Spry dropdown menu problem

I've been working on a drop down menu for a site for a few
months now. I'm using the Spry Widget. I can't seem to get it
working right. I had used the drop down menu feature without
problems in CS2, but now that I have CS3, I'm having problems. I
use a Mac and am checking the site on a PC. The problem is in IE on
the PC.
Here is the site and page with the problem:
http://www.nectfarmersmarket.org/farms.html
The menu item "Participating Farms" has a drop down menu.
Everything works fine on my Mac using FF and Safari. On the PC,
using IE, only some of the links to the page anchors work in the
drop down menu. The ones that don't work for me are: Duhamel Farm,
Palazzi, Stone Farm, and Woodstock Farm.
Since I assume it's user error :), today I recreated the page
and the dropdown menu again from scratch:
http://www.nectfarmersmarket.org/farmsC.html.
And now more links don't work. These are the ones that don't work
on this test page: Duhamel, Palazzi, Rachels, Stone and Woodstock.
I have posted about this a while back, but I still can't
figure it out and my client is getting a little impatient.
TIA!

In regards to the validation if you put that page through
right now you will get a few errors. I will try to give them a
quick rundown.
- HR tags should look like <hr /> instead of <hr>
which you have now. This is because there is no ending tag with HR
tags so XHTML puts an end in the tag <hr />.
-One error is a missing v in a closing div tag. You have
</di> instead of </div>.
-The final is with table tags, but with a quick glance I
can't tell which tags are duplicate. Basically it appears as though
there are one too many sets of closing tags. Would have to look
closer at this to solve.
In regards to the Drop-Down and anchors you may want to post
this over at the Adobe Spry Forums because this is an odd issue and
may be something that we have overlooked. So head over and post the
link to the page so that they can see on that forum:
http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_spry_pr1_forum
Outside of that I really don't know what to say without
rebuilding the menu from scratch and building a page locally on my
test server which I won't really have time to do until probably the
weekend and I know you want this solved as soon as possible. Wish
there was more I could tell you but this has me stumped.

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