diff --git a/resources/css/kt-framing.css b/resources/css/kt-framing.css
index e1b50c1..5eae1a1 100644
--- a/resources/css/kt-framing.css
+++ b/resources/css/kt-framing.css
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ a.main_nav_item {
     background: transparent;
     margin: 0 10px 0 0 ;
     padding: 0;
-    z-index: 100;  /*  IE layers this below the content bar. */
+    z-index: 2;  /*  IE layers this below the content bar. */
 }
 
 /* horrible, custom dashboard hack. */
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ a.main_nav_item {
     background: url(../../resources/graphics/portlet_corner_topleft_collapsed.png) top left no-repeat;
     padding: 0 0 0 0;
     border: 0;
-    z-index: 1000;
+    z-index: 2;
 }
 
 #portletbar .portlet .portletTopRepeat {
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ a.main_nav_item {
 }
 
 #portletbar .portlet .portletbody .BottomLeft {
-    position: absolute;
+    position: absolute;                                                
     bottom: 0px;
     left: 0px;
     width: 10px;
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ a.main_nav_item {
 }
 
 #portletbar .portlet .portletbody .BottomRight {
-    position: absolute;
+    position: absolute;                                                
     bottom: 0px;
     right: 0px;
     width: 10px;
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ a.main_nav_item {
 }
 
 #portletbar .portlet .portletbody .Bottom {
-    position: absolute;
+    position: absolute;                                                
     bottom: 0px;
     left: 5px;
     height: 3px;
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ a.main_nav_item {
 }
 
 #portletbar .portlet .portletbody .Right {
-    position: absolute;
+    position: absolute;                                                
     background: url(../../resources/graphics/portlet_borderright.png) top right repeat-y;
     top: 0px;
     right: 0px;
@@ -492,9 +492,12 @@ a.main_nav_item {
 #content
 {
     position: relative;
-    padding-left: 17em;
-    padding-right: 2.75em;
+    display: block;
+    top: 0;
     z-index: 1;
+    width: auto;
+    padding-left: 17em;
+    padding-right: 2em;
 }
 
 #content.view.withviewlets {
diff --git a/resources/css/kt-ie-icons.css b/resources/css/kt-ie-icons.css
index e789049..bbc95b4 100644
--- a/resources/css/kt-ie-icons.css
+++ b/resources/css/kt-ie-icons.css
@@ -32,8 +32,12 @@
 /* IE is woefully unable to */
 #portletbar { width: 200px; }
 #portlet-search-text { width: 150px; }
-#content { padding-left: 220px; }
+/* #content { padding-left: 220px; } */
 
+#content { 
+    float: left;
+    padding: 0 25px 0 0;    
+}
 
 
 /* NO CHILD SELECTORS IN IE! */
@@ -60,3 +64,4 @@
 .kt_treenodes li.inactive ul {
     display: none;
 }
+
diff --git a/templates/kt3/portlets/browsemodes_portlet.smarty b/templates/kt3/portlets/browsemodes_portlet.smarty
index 4487a8b..70234c9 100644
--- a/templates/kt3/portlets/browsemodes_portlet.smarty
+++ b/templates/kt3/portlets/browsemodes_portlet.smarty
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@
         {$sModeName.name}
       {/if}
    {/if}
+   </li>
 {/foreach}
 </ul>
diff --git a/templates/kt3/standard_page.smarty b/templates/kt3/standard_page.smarty
index cd561e7..e3b2e28 100644
--- a/templates/kt3/standard_page.smarty
+++ b/templates/kt3/standard_page.smarty
@@ -155,7 +155,10 @@
                         </div>
                     {/if}
                 {/foreach}
+                <div class="floatClear"> </div>
             </div>
+
+
             <div id="content" {if $page->content_class}class="{$page->content_class}"{/if}>
                 {if (!$page->hide_section)}
                     <h1 class="{$page->componentClass}"><span class="fahrner">{$page->componentLabel}</span>
@@ -179,11 +182,12 @@
                 {/if}
                 <!-- and finally, the content. -->
                 {$page->contents}
-                <div class="floatClear"></div>
 	    </div>
+
+                <div class="floatClear"> </div>
+
         </div>
     </div>
-    </div>
     <div id="copyrightbarBorder">
         <div id="copyrightbar">
             {i18n}&copy; 2006 <a href="http://www.ktdms.com/">The Jam Warehouse Software (Pty) Ltd.</a> All Rights Reserved{/i18n}