Where am i going wrong?

[nofel]

hey folks,
i m working on a new design. (revamp) i m integrating the developer code with my new css. now i don't know much about raw html. i m having big time problems creating this page as i see it in IE 8. the lower box is pushed below/on footer. whereas in firefox its working fine http://ammardesigns.com/sandbox/SiteSearch.php
can anyone help me pls

[AutisticCuckoo]

Before starting to trouble-shoot presentational errors (which belong in the CSS forum), you should make sure that your markup is valid. There are a lot of errors on that page, and if you were to serve this as XHTML (as your doctype declaration says), it wouldn't render at all. You'd just get an error message from the XML parser.

And a hint: using URIs like 'file:///C|/xampp/htdocs/stylesheets/styles.css' is not a good idea if you intend to serve this via a web server.