Explorer solution

After a year long frustrating struggle, I finally found my way out of Internet Explorer’s (lower than IE6 versions) incapacity to render boxes the way I want them rendered and its failure to recognize hover anywhere but in links.
I wrote a special CSS2-style sheet for IE-browsers and placed a Javascript on top of all my pages which writes (with document.write) style sheet declarations for either IE-browsers or all others.

As of now, when you view one of my pages with any of these pre-6 IE-browsers you will be presented a no-IE icon, which links to a page explaining why you are experiencing such poor rendering: