[css-d] align 3 divs in a row

Hi, I'm a bit new to CSS. and i've tried googling but i may getting the search terms wrong. Question: I have 3 divs in a row with a parent div. in Firefox they align up perfectly (horizontally), yet in IE the #slider_track div pushes lower than the other two DIVS so it looks like: __

[css-d] Background Images wont load in IE when the parent div is set to display:none

I currently have this issue on my website. I use png's, so in order to fix them in ie I use the fixer() javascript code which changes them into span's with the background png img and the Alpha Transparency filter doohicky. But when the parent div is set to display:none onload ie doesnt load the ba