bearduk - 7:52 pm on Oct 9, 2012 (gmt 0)

Thanks, yeah I had run that but didn't see any major probs other than code in the body rather than the head. The CMS I use requires the code to be in line unfortunately. I noticed IE8 in quirks mode worked fine so I also added the 'force IE8'

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=8">

to see if that fixed the problem but it didn't (it did add more errors to the validation though!)
I'll try to iron out the other problems then at least I can rule out the w3c validation errors. Will update on the outcome.