The old transparency problem

After initial optimism about using iWeb to make my new website to sell my ebook from, I am beginning to lose heart. Major bugs that are well documented on these forums have obstructed me, and I've read up as much as I can on them.
It's this transparency issue. And the converting text to png. I had my website looking VERY smart, with reflections on my pictures, effects on the text etc. And then I sent the link to a mate to check out the site (she's on XP), and lo-and-behold, problems galore. It seems IE doesn't like a .png's transparency. So: my pictures, titles, nav bar, and text (which has been randomly converted to massive .pngs - you all know the issue) have gained horrible greyish backgrounds which clash horribly with the smooth black of the page. What a load of cr*p.
I did my research - took off the reflections from the pics and made the text just plain Arial with no effects. Now, my website looks plainer, but it DOES just about work on a PC. Apart from the nav bar. So, as well as just ranting, I want to know what my options are.
Are Apple going to release an update any time soon? There MUST be a better way of making the nav bar than using pngs? Its simply ridiculous and such a shame that such a promising program has such devastating flaws built in to it. I'm disappointed. What workarounds do I have to make the navbar look like it should? Can I do away with it altogether and make my own?

Everything shows up fine on my XP, but I'm running service pack 2, so they may not be (and if they're not, they should for security's sake). Things are gray initially, but in the final step AFTER everything has downloaded, IE finally renders all the gray areas transparent. Are they waiting until the whole site has loaded?
This is why I wouldn't recommend iWeb for a business. In the time it takes to figure out a workaround for things that don't look good in IE, you could have bought a program like RapidWeaver or SandVox that may cost a bit more, but wouldn't require any extra work PLUS they're a lot more forgiving of adding .html and other scripts. Time saved.
I don't expect iWeb sites to ever look good in IE unless Microsoft decides to update IE so that it is on par with other newer browsers. Even AFTER this, people would have to upgrade their browsers and, due to the virus thing, many PC users aren't really excited about having to download anything (even a better FREE browser, FireFox).

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