Internet Explorer Problems!!!

Hello,

I have attached some pics of the problems I am having with this template in IE8 and IE9 in XP and windows 7. the background I have set is not rendering and the page is truncated at the bottom. I see that others have had this issue but I'm not sure how to fix mine. Please Advise.
I've attached pictures of firefox in the same operating systems which seems to render fine. I have no problems with safari or firefox on the mac either.

ok, I think I got it fixed. by inserting this code in index.php

<div class="<?php $menu = JSite::getMenu(); if ($menu->getActive() == $menu->getDefault()) { echo "not_"; } ?>main_area">
<?php if ($showleft) { ?>
<div class="column_left">
<div class="column_left_pad">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="xhtml" />
</div>
<div class="clr"></div>
</div>

but I'm still having problems with the background not showing up. And I also see some overlap of the content area with the right column. Any idea on how to fix this part. picture is attached.

Please give us live link of your site so we can inspect the code.

www.cuerochamber.com

How do I reach page you have in snapshot, all pages I checked on fly are ok

cuero.chambermaster.com/list/member/a-taste-above-119.htm

the main problem I am having is the background not showing up on internet explorer and then the overlap on the right hand column