argh...css works in IE5 but not IE6?

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I need help...lots of it. hehe

It's such good timing that vladdy and Samij586 were having the discussion regarding vladdy's menu, because I wanted to make a site, utilizing that menu (which is quite awesome imho).

and while the menu works great for me...I'm having an issue with the overall design of my site. it's actually quite simple, the nav and site logo on left part of window, content frame on the right, expanding to fill height and width. should be easy right? I'm designing it for IE only, this is a business thing, and the only computers looking at it should be using IE (I know I know..FF is better but hey)

I have it working perfectly in IE5...looks clean. I haven't checked in FF, but in IE6....it seems that no matter what I do....the content frame will not auto-size to exactly the browser-window size. I can fix the size to have it smaller, or if I use 100% it'll go 100% of what the browser window is, then push over due to my left-margin.

maybe I'm going at my layout all wrong, I don't know..but I was hoping you all could show me my errors. here's the files:

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here's the actual site...didn't realize I could only attach 1 file at a time.

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YEY I figured it out. thought I'd share my issue incase anyone else runs into this type of problem.

Going through the w3schools and msdn.microsoft.com sites, I couldn't find anything wrong...was really frustrating, then ran across a reference for using 2 doctypes in the same html file?

so I inserted this coding into my doctype header
<! DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EM">
<! DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EM"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">


and presto! IE6 works. I'm not sure why this works...if anyone wants to learn me, feel free to speak up :)

I haven't tested this code for FF yet, will later tonight when I can get to my home computer.