for some reason, when I put .twoColFixRtHdr #mainContent in the conditional comment, it does not work whatever values I put in. only works with a hack, but obviously thats not the way to do it.

tried many things but still cant get ie6 to align correctly.

thanks

I don't see where in your code you put the conditional comment. The conditional rules have to be enclosed in:

<!--[if lte IE 6]>

<![endif]-->

tim