Thanks, Walt. Thanks Nancy.

Nancy, I will take your advice and clean up my layout for those who wish to
increase the size of text. I don't know why folks who need larger text don't
either get a bigger monitor or switch to Opera. My page retains ALL of its
absolute positioned layout in Opera! Actually, Firefox (my favorite browser)
is the only one that is a COMPLETE disaster when the font size is increased.
That makes me sad.

For now, though, I did change my background so that if the background image
does not load properly, (which it is STILL not doing) I will at least still
have a similar background color. I incorporated the pngfix.js file, also. I
am happy to say that the blue background is visible, but, sadly the background
image is not. Most importantly, though, the same problem (I believe) is
preventing my "get directions" links from being accessed.

Walt, thanks for turning me on to the validator website. Awesome tool! It
taught me that some of the things that I thought were right, work even though
they are not actually right. I fixed all that I could. There are only 4
errors left. The website says 65, but you'll notice that it only sites lines
119, 120, 121, and 184. Looking at these one at a time you'll see that 119 is
a long hyperlink to Google Maps, 120 is to Yahoo Maps, and 121 is to Mapquest.
Incidentally these are the links that do not work in IE, but I believe that
these "errors is not actually the cause of all of my woes, because the
background and the "request appointment" fields below ALSO do not work even
though they are "error free." Finally, line 184 is not my coding, it is a
tracking script that Yahoo tacks onto the end of all files they host. I can't
control this line, and I believe it is also not the culprit, because the same
errors occur while I test locally. (read: Yahoo script-free.)

You both have been so ful, I can only hope that you might both feel
disposed to continue ing me shake out this problem.

Again, many thanks.