Could it possibly be IE5.2 on the Mac? I don't have access to that but from experience I know that it's the one browser that causes the most problems for me.
If you use the following HTML instead of the table
HTML Code:
<div class="item clearleft"> <img src="images_folio/about-me.png" alt="me">
<div id="aboutcontent">
<h1>About Me</h1>
<h2>Studies</h2>
I have a bachelor's degree in graphic arts.
<h2>Interests</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt;">I love design, illustration and drawing, whether
for commercial purposes or not. My admiration for people like Robert Crumb,
Manara and Moebius is limitless.</p>
<p>When I'm not playing around with pen and ink, you'll probably find me
at my Mac, toying around with software or working on one of my personal
sites.</p>
<p>Aside from that I'm something of a music freak. Favorites include Frank
Zappa, Neil Young, Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, Johnny Cash, Steely
Dan and Sufjan Stevens. I used to play guitar in a now obsolete band called
“Moonbug” which is where the domain name comes from.</p>
<h2>Skills</h2>
I am proficient in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>xhtml</li>
<li>php and mysql</li>
<li>apache webserver</li>
<li>Adobe Photoshop</li>
<li>Adobe Illustrator</li>
<li>Adobe Indesign</li>
<li>Quark XPress</li>
<li>Apple OS X</li>
</ul>
<h2>Languages</h2>
Dutch is my maternal language. I'm fluent (reading and writing) in English
and French, and have notions of Spanish and German.
<h2>Random facts</h2>
Some useless information for your perusal...
<ul>
<li>I am currently 35 years old.</li>
<li>I am married to a lovely Argentine girl.</li>
<li>My cat's name is Zappa.</li>
<li>My previous cat's name was Chopin.</li>
<li>I've traveled to England, Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Argentina
and Brazil.</li>
<li>Italy and the United States are on my wishlist.</li>
</ul>
</div>
and the following as your main.css
Code:
body{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 70%;
/* background: #eee url(images_folio/bottom.gif) bottom center repeat-x; */
background-color: #eee;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
}
#header{
background-color: #403838;
width: 100%;
height: 150px;
background: #403838 url(header-back.png) top left repeat-x;
}
#portfolio{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
height: 150px;
width: 200px;
background: #403838 url(images_folio/portfolio.png) top left no-repeat;
}
div.img-link a {
display: block;
height: 150px;
text-decoration: none;
}
#main{
margin-left: 200px;
margin-top: 40px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
.item{
width: 500px;
color: #666;
line-height: 17px;
height: 175px;
text-align: justify;
}
.item h1{
font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 190%;
font-weight: normal;
color: #666;
}
.item h2{
font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 130%;
font-weight: normal;
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.item img{
float: left;
background-color: #fff;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-right: 30px;
}
#aboutcontent {
float: right;
width: 315px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
.clearleft{
clear: left;
}
ul{
margin-top: 4px;
margin-left: 7px;
}
.textInput, textarea{ /* General style for my inputs when they're not highlighted */
font-size: 80%;
width:314px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial;
background-color:#fff;
border:1px solid #ccc;
color: #666;
}
textarea{
height: 300px;
}
input, textarea{
margin: 3px 0 5px 0;
}
input.button{
background-color: #ccc;
color: #fff;
padding: 2px;
border: none;
}
.right{
float: right;
}
small{
font-size: 80%;
color: #666;
}
.inputHighlighted{ /* Highlighting style */
font-size: 80%;
background-color:#eee;
color:#666;
width:314px;
border:1px solid #333;
}
#footer{
width: 100%;
height: 15px;
font-size: 70%;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
background-color: #A1A1A1;
color: #eee;
text-align: center;
margin-top: 20px;
}
then that should remove the table and also allow your users to resize the font size in earlier versions of IE. You might have to tweak the percentages of some of your elements as they weren't on this page so couldn't see what they were doing but it shouldn't take you two minutes just to change these through trial and error till you get the sizes you want.
Allowing your users to resuze the text isn't just leaving the visual aspect to your users, it's about ensuring that your users can actually read the text on your site. Font sizes you specify maybe too small for somebody with poor eyesight so by allowing you users to resize the font, you are making your site more accessible and isn't a hard thing to build in from the start by simply using % or em's to specify your font size 
Hope that helps.
Originally Posted by csswiz
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