[WSG] disappearing element in page

[Carl Reynolds]

I am creating a page using a fluid two column layout. I think I have the 
page looking the way I want it in Firefox/win. It also looks OK in 
IE/win, but if I narrow the IE window enough that a horizontal scroll 
bar appears and refresh, or go to the page for the first time, the menu 
area (on the left) disappears. If I then widen the window far enough for 
the scroll bar to go away, the menu appears and remains visible, even if 
I narrow the window again. The menu will stay visible until I refresh 
the window again with the scroll bar visible.

Here is a link to the page http://hyperbole-software.com/movie-buzz/ and 
it's css is here http://hyperbole-software.com/movie-buzz/main.css

The page is composed of a <div> called #menu that is position: absolute 
( this is the one that vanishes) and a second <div> called 
#center-layout. #menu contains a <ul> containing links to other pages 
and #center-layout contains several other <div>s used to layout the 
center part of the page.

I had thought this might be a peek-a-boo bug and have applied position: 
relative to #menu and its children and to #center-layout and most of its 
children. That didn't change the behavior at all. Since none of these 
changes helped, I removed them to keep the css file uncluttered.

Would you please take a look at the page and see if you can suggest a 
solution?

Thank you very much for any assistance.
Carl.

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