jQuery causing problems in IE (only IE)

Hi guys,

any help will be greatly appreciated…

The problem:
The site in question heavily uses Javascript, there are more than a dozen scripts executing. Everything works fine in Chrome and Firefox 3.5+…but, in IE there are several problems:

  • Hover effect over table elements is painfully slow in IE (only IE)
  • Very high processor usage on mouseover
  • Flash animation pauses/stops when moving mouse over table elements (making flash banners on the site impossible -> big problem)

You can se the page here (there’s a flash animation on the right side of the page (light grey/blue color))


I’ve isolated the problem. It’s something with jQuery.
There are more than a dozen scripts executing on the page, when I remove the first of them ( put the line below in a comment) the problem disappears, along with all the JavaScript functionality…

Here’s the problem line:

 
<script language="JavaScript" src="javascript/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

I have attached the problem file (jquery.js, renamed to jquery.txt so I can upload it):