Spry Table works in Firefox but not IE

Question

I have a Spry table working just fine in Firefox in a site
I'm developing:
http://www.abenaki.com/newsite/schedule.html,
but in IE 6 and 7 it first shows the table, unpopulated, and then
disappears altogether. I'm new to Spry and XML... have I done
something wrong? Any light anyone could shed would be hugely
appreciated! Thank you!!
The XML looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<courses>
<course id="1">
<name>New! Introduction to Social Assistance and Case
Management</name>
<location>Winnipeg</location>
<startdate>10 21 2008</startdate>
<duration>4 days</duration>
<price>$1695</price>
<desc>This course covers the setup, daily and periodic
procedures for Abenaki’s Social Assistance and Case
Management Module.Topics to be covered include: organization
profile setup, rate maintenance, security, vendor and client
maintenance, cheque production in Sage Accpac, cheque production in
the Social Assistance module, reports, case planning, month and
year end processing.</desc>
</course>
<course id="2">
<name>Introduction to Safe Water Infrastructure
Management System</name>
<location>Moncton</location>
<startdate>10 28 2008</startdate>
<duration>2 days</duration>
<price>$1295</price>
<desc>No description available at this
time.</desc>
</course>
<course id="3">
<name>Introduction to Housing Inspection and Management
System</name>
<location>Moncton</location>
<startdate>10 30 2008</startdate>
<duration>1 day</duration>
<price>$495</price>
<desc>This introductory level course covers all of the
steps involved in the data entry and report generation for housing
units in the community. Topics to be covered include: rating the
condition and estimated cost to repair of the interior, exterior,
amenities, fire and health hazard items. Students will learn how to
generate reports to identify housing units in need of minor or
major repairs and those units that are potential fire and/or health
hazard.</desc>
</course>
<course id="4">
<name>New! Post Secondary Education and Student
Tracking</name>
<location>Winnipeg</location>
<startdate>11 12 2008</startdate>
<duration>3 days</duration>
<price>$1595</price>
<desc>No description available at this
time.</desc>
</course>
<course id="5">
<name>New! Introduction to Social Assistance and Case
Management</name>
<location>Edmonton</location>
<startdate>11 18 2008</startdate>
<duration>4 days</duration>
<price>$1695</price>
<desc>This course covers the setup, daily and periodic
procedures for Abenaki’s Social Assistance and Case
Management Module.Topics to be covered include: organization
profile setup, rate maintenance, security, vendor and client
maintenance, cheque production in Sage Accpac, cheque production in
the Social Assistance module, reports, case planning, month and
year end processing.</desc>
</course>
<course id="6">
<name>Introduction to Safe Water Infrastructure
Management System</name>
<location>Edmonton</location>
<startdate>11 18 2008</startdate>
<duration>2 days</duration>
<price>$1295</price>
<desc>No description available at this
time.</desc>
</course>
<course id="7">
<name>Introduction to Housing Inspection and Management
System</name>
<location>Edmonton</location>
<startdate>11 20 2008</startdate>
<duration>1 day</duration>
<price>$495</price>
<desc>This introductory level course covers all of the
steps involved in the data entry and report generation for housing
units in the community. Topics to be covered include: rating the
condition and estimated cost to repair of the interior, exterior,
amenities, fire and health hazard items. Students will learn how to
generate reports to identify housing units in need of minor or
major repairs and those units that are potential fire and/or health
hazard.</desc>
</course>
<course id="8">
<name>Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 Refresher</name>
<location>Moncton</location>
<startdate>01 20 2009</startdate>
<duration>4 days</duration>
<price>$1695</price>
<desc>No description available at this
time.</desc>
</course>
<course id="9">
<name>Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 General Ledger and Accounts
Payable</name>
<location>Winnipeg</location>
<startdate>01 20 2009</startdate>
<duration>4 days</duration>
<price>$1695</price>
<desc>No description available at this
time.</desc>
</course>
</courses>
Abenaki Course
Schedule

Answer 1

The reason its not working its because its "crashing" at the
sort function in IE, I have no clue why.
To be more specific,, this part of the SpryData.js
if (this.unfilteredData)
this.unfilteredData.sort(sortfunc);
if (this.filterFunc)
this.filter(this.filterFunc, true);
else
/*this->*/ this.data.sort(sortfunc);
Maby try to delete the setColumnType for your startdate, to
see if that helps. Because your startdate is not a "valid" date
string. (i think)