I came back... thought I should give you an example what I mean by it's not interpreting things correctly...
I'm using the simplest things in css... font, link colors, table borders, widths, heights, padding... Let's take padding... I can set a padding of 5... IE7 doesn't use it... not even using layers and divs to set the layout...just plain old ordinary tables... I wind up setting padding and other measurements in HTML because IE7 shows everything without any cell padding otherwise.
But then, I can look at the same page in firefox with the padding now set in both the css and the stupid table cell and it's too wide to fit with the header and top links sections which don't have any padding. I've got twenty-eight pages done already and I'd hate to have to start over and with them.
Same problem with the links... certain parts need the font to be white with another light color for hover, other parts need to be black with another color for hover... IE isn't picking that up either... I have to set each one individually or it goes to the default blue.