IE 6 problem

Yes, this does happen, you're not doing anything wrong.

I don't know of any (good) workarounds. My goal with MSIE/Sands is to remain readable and reasonably look good, not necessarily be functional.

If anyone knows of any workaround/fixes, I'd be glad to apply them.

I changed:
#leftColumn, #middleColumn, #rightColumn, * html #SOWrap
{
overflow: visible; /* fix for IE italics bug */
position: relative; /* fix some rendering issues */
}

to:
#leftColumn, #rightColumn // #middleColumn, * html #SOWrap
{
overflow: visible; /* fix for IE italics bug */
position: relative; /* fix some rendering issues */
}

CrowChick: Hrm, I made your modification, it did not appear to make a difference...

Regardless, some relevant links so I don't have to find them again:

CSS-bugs with IE6: http://drupal.org/node/44934
Removal of <base> tag: http://drupal.org/node/13148#comment-69225

Closing this, as I don't think there's an easy fix.

Workarounds:

• Use the latest release of Sands, which is now tables-based
• Upgrade to Drupal 4.7, which no longer uses the <base href=""> tag, and use the new Sands_CSS theme which uses CSS columns as Sands did