Most excellent! I read through that topic and then fixed the issue nicely. I also fixed one of my other websites that was having a background alignment issue.
So placing:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
above all other meta tags in a web page header will force IE8 to load the page in compatibility mode. Sweet. But eventually Microsoft will either need to tweek their browser or a lot of websites will need to be redone. For now this works for me.
Thank you Rick.
