broken css in safari 3.1.1

Once you add any menu item to the Primary link menu, this problem's gone.
If not, the following changes will fix this issue.

style.css

Current
#menu-l {
width: 10px;
background: url("images/bg-menu-l.png") no-repeat top right;
}
#menu-r {
width: 10px;
background: url("images/bg-menu-l.png") no-repeat top left;
}

New
#menu-l {
width: 10px;
background: url("images/bg-menu-l.png") no-repeat top left;
}
#menu-r {
width: 10px;
background: url("images/bg-menu-l.png") no-repeat top right;
}

I will add this fix to the next version which is scheduled to be released sometime this week or this weekend.

Thanks for the bug report.

I see this in both Safari and Firefox. The suggested fix didn't correct the problem.

Also seeing this in IE 8 (compatibility mode) and Opera 10 Beta.

same problem still existing ... any workaround?

As fred said the above patch won't help so I dont know if i should give it a try.