What I need is some guidance in the situation I am facing now. Should I hide the stylesheet until I fix the site for Mac IE or should I just let it be? Best person to answer would be a Mac user I reckon :)
Jamie
The immediate solution for making everyone happy is checking the user agent for IE5 Mac (i.e. assuming your Mac problem is only in IE) with a script. Once IE5 Mac is isolated, you serve it a simpler stylesheet that doesn't exhibit the bugs, but still shows the basic design. This way you will have time to work out the bugs without shutting anyone out from your message. You can reinstate full style when your design works acceptable on the platform.
If you stay away from pixel precise widths in your positioning, and understand how your design will flow (inline or block) according to the CSS containment hierarchy along with its inheritance, IE's bugs can be isolated much easier, and IE will behave better with floats and lists. My advise is to create the layout structure in colored boxes using no borders, margins, padding, or style until you markup the positioning.
If you send me the URLs for the site and CSS, I would be happy to help you find and markup a bug free stylesheet for the Mac.
Leo
Further to what Leo has said, Russ has a good tutorial on how to "plan a layout"
http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/process/
which looking at your very nice site may help your cross browser issue
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