IE Is being a PITA: positioning...

[N9ne]

.main {
width: 692px;
height: 80px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px;
padding: 4px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.main_left {
width: 546px;
right-margin: 150px;
position: static;
}
.main_right {
vertical-align: top;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px;
margin-left: 555px;
position: absolute;
}

<div class="main">
<div class="main_left">
this is just some random text ok.
nothing out of the ordinary!!!!!
Internet explorer sucks....
WHY CANT THEY MAKE IT GOOD!?<br />
IE is aweful though. CSS just doesn't work right!
</div>
<div class="main_right">
<strong>Powered by:</strong><br />
</div>
</div>

What it looks like in IE: http://www.xsidefx.com/argh.gif

What I want to do!: You see the Powered By: division...I want that to be level with the text on the left vertically, not at the bottom underneath it!

I had it working all fine and dandy while viewing in Firebird then I switched to IE and there we have it, it went wrong, so I changed a few things and right now I have it looking the same in both firebird and IE, so I figured that would help. Any ideas on what I should do?

[N9ne]

Well, after playing around with it for a while, I've fixed it.

Sometimes I wish IE would just be discontinued and people be forced to use firebird...who's with me? .

[paki]

im with you

[vgarcia]

Sometimes I wish IE would just be discontinued and people be forced to use firebird...who's with me? .

Nope. Choice is good. I wish the playing field was level in terms of both standards support and availability of browsers, don't get me wrong, but I don't want to see IE go away.

[N9ne]

Nope. Choice is good. I wish the playing field was level in terms of both standards support and availability of browsers, don't get me wrong, but I don't want to see IE go away.

Well, either IE goes or I go!

Er, yeah, well I just wish IE would support CSS properly, it's really annoying.