I have copies of, and refer to, the World Wide Web Consortium's latest HTML and CSS specifications. I believe you will find these pages validate both for HTML and CSS. Any display anomalies are therefore bugs that you may report to your web browser's development team.

I should point out that I have tested this site in IE. When the king of browsers (NCSA Mosaic) died and left his kingdom to his sons, he (and I) never expected the bastard child IE to successfully murder the heir-apparent and several older sons and then claim the throne himself. But that is, alas, ancient history in this the enlightened 21st century, and so out of respect for IE's success if not its methods I've fired it up and loaded my pages.

Looks awful, doesn't it? That's due primarily to a little miscommunication. You see, when Microsoft says they fully support CSS1, an 8-year-old standard, what they really mean is that they support a small part of CSS1, but the part they do support they support fully. To get the full effect you really need a browser that supports the + selector from CSS2 but that is easy to do.

May I suggest Mozilla, FireFox, Galeon, Konquerer, Opera, OmniWeb, Safari, or one of a dozen other alternatives? You'll find the web doesn't suck nearly as much as you thought.