Internet Explorer 8 and image width

When I include an imagecache image in a view and float it with text alongside, IE8 usually will not load the image or adjacent content on the first try. I have to refresh the page once or twice. This is because Internet Explorer 8 insists that elements have floats and widths; imagecache is correctly sizing the image, but is not outputting a width attribute. I fix this problem by re-writing the views field, using a views file format of "URL to file" and the appropriate HTML, including a width. Of course, this makes imagecache unnecessary. It also slows the page a bit, because the browser must re-size the image.

This problem does not exist with Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. For that danged IE, it would be nice if imagecache could output a width attribute.