css mimics position:fixed in IE - almost. help! - CSS forum at WebmasterWorld

I have a CSS layout that I cobbled together from various sources, and it appears to get around the inability of IE to display fixed boxes - except, the content scrollbar disappears in IE! Is it possible to fix this bug while keeping the layout?

The CSS:

1. standards.css

html
{
padding: 0px;
background-color: lightgrey;
}
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#headerwrapper {
position:fixed;
left:0px;
top:0px;
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
background-color:#006600;
z-index:7;
}

#header {
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:0px;
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
background-color:#006600;
z-index:7;
}

div.nav {
position: fixed;
width: 200px;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
background: #006600;
padding-top: 30px;
padding-left: 0px;
/* This value controls the vertical bar */
height: 100%;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#navcontent {
position:absolute;
top:120px;
left:0px;
width: 200px;
margin: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
color:red;
}
div.content {
margin: 120px 0px 0px 220px;
padding: 0px;
}
/* -- End basic layout section -- */
div.content p {
font: 100% "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Geneva, san-serif;
color: #333333;
text-align: justify;
padding-top: 15px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
div.content a {
color: #6666CC;
}
div.content a:hover {
color: #CCCCCC;
background: #AA9FAA;
text-decoration: none;
}
.nav p {
font: 100%/1 Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #FFFFFF;
display: block;
padding-top: 0px;
margin: 0px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
div.nav a {
color: #FFFFFF;
background: #9faa9f;
width: 150px;
display: block;
margin: 0px;
padding-top: 6px;
padding-bottom: 1px;
padding-left: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
height: 18px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
div.nav a:hover {
color: #333333;
background: #999999;
width: 150px;
display: block;
margin: 0px;
padding-top: 6px;
padding-bottom: 1px;
padding-left: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
height: 18px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}

2. iehack5.css

/* Amends and adds rules needed by IE5.x to standards.css */
body {
overflow: hidden;
background-color: lightgrey;
z-index: 1;
}
div.nav {
position: absolute;
z-index: 6;
overflow: hidden;
}
.spacer {
position: absolute;
margin-bottom: 0px;
width: 200px;
/* top: 0px; */
left: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
background: #AA9FAA;
height: 100%;
z-index: 5;
}
div.content {
margin: 120px 0px 0px 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 100%;
padding-left: 220px;
z-index: 4;
height: 100%;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: scroll;
}

3. iehack6.css

/* Amends and adds rules needed by IE6 to standards.css */
html {
overflow: hidden;
}
body {
background-color: lightgrey;
overflow: auto;
}
div.nav {
position: absolute;
background: #006600;
padding-top: 30px;
padding-left: 0px;
height: 100%;
}

The HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<link href="standards.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">


</head>
<body>
<div id="headerwrapper"><div id="header"></div></div>
<div class="nav">
<div id="navcontent">
<p><a href="#">Item 1</a></p>
<p><a href="#">Item 2</a></p>
<p><a href="#">Item 3</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
<div class="spacer"> </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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