Transparent Background - shape layer?

CS4
So I have this great little shape and I want to save it as a jpeg with a transparent background so that IE will show a gradient around it. However, IE is showing only a white background around the shape. My the thumbnail in the shape layer is also white (not the vector mask's thumbnail). How can I export this shape to jpeg and have a transparent background that IE understands?
TIA.

Thank you Bart. As is typical, I was confused and had the features of jpeg and gif confused.
I'm curious though, why do you say "gif preferred"? At least in IE7 both file type are displayed with transparent background. However, the PNG is noticeably sharper. Is the issue just the increase file size?
(FYI: for anyone reading this that may have the same issue. When I first created a GIF instead of the JPEG as Bart said to do, I still did not see the shape displayed with a transparent background - or at least I didn't think I did. The issue was with my CSS. My header div loads a graphic as a background image. The logo was in a logo style class, again as a background, that was assigned to a div that was a descendent. I had assumed that the logo was going to load "above" the header graphic in the Z order. That didn't happen. So what I was seeing was the white background of the browser and not a white background of the logo image. FWIW.)

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