Spry vertical menus in i.e

New to spry. But looks powerfull tool. I have set up menus and modified content and styles through css. Menus work fine on all browsers except internet i.e.
The menus change colour as designed but they donot drop out to sub menus.
Ive tested setting up a raw spry menu using all default settings and agin it doesnt work in ie.
anyone know how to fix.
thanks james

Hi Beth
The site wasn't live but ive put on the back of another site address below
http://www.door-angel.com/iceni/home.html
As you will see the spry works fine in every browser apart from ie. Where it
dosent drop out to second tier of menus.
Ive also just made a quick file using all the default settings of a spry
vertical menu and this to doesn't seem to work.
Really appreciate help
Kind regards James

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ok... no sooner than I hit submit... figured it out...
If anyone comes across this, it seems just add width:0,
hieght:0 to the following css:
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    margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
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