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I would be the last one to defend IE in general but have you had a look at the Developer Tools of IE8? I think it's pretty decent stuff.

I haven't, I will test those out for sure.

IE8, of course, is the least troublesome but it's good to have options.

It has IE7 "Mode", so you can use the IE8 dev tools to debug IE7 issues.

IE7 mode seems to catch 95% of the cases, but I have had issues crop up in "real" IE7 that were not present when tested under IE8.