Thanks Ian, and it's good to know Sir Dude's naked shoutbox alleviates this problem. But I'm not really looking to reimplement the Shoutbox (yet!?). I'm happy for it to exist in the column so long as the user's browser is.
So I just need a fix to prevent it from loading in a column if a user's browser is IE.
I mean, this is a known issue with the IE browser, isn't it? If so, it'd be nice to put in a work around. A user of mine brought up a good point in that we may be alienating users because the site just freezes up for them because of the Shoutbox + IE combo. For some, changing browser may not be a practical option.
