++ re: plain. I still think ie5 was the greatest browser Microsoft made, because it was the basic browser that, although it had no bells or whistles, worked on almost EVERY page. If I couldn't see something in Opera or, later, Firefox, I just threw it at ie5 and it worked.
Funny story for you; I have found pages that do not render properly in IE6 that render fine in IE5.5.
I wish I could explain it but..
Exactly. Standard IE is no longer the throw-anything-at-it (and pretty fast as well) browser, unfortunately.