Well, I’m done playing with the layout for the night. Changed the CSS a bit, and now things look MUCH better. 
There is always room for improvement, but it’s a start.
As part of my ongoing effort to help move people away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, visitors using IE will now see a nice, new “feature”. 
Common, it really is worth switching to a different browser. IMO Opera Web Browser is the best option, followed by Mozilla Firefox. That’s my opinion though, try them out and use what you think is best.