if viewed in firefox, the page looks exactly how i want. now open in ie and the background in the content box is white. i used an iframe, and tried setting the bg to transparent - which is working with firefox and netscape, but not ie.

i would rather use the transparent bg than just a color because its over top of an image with some grunge. also, i can't make that image the bg because its a lot larger than the table.

any ideas?

http://home.ripway.com/2005-11/500689/index.htm

In Safari, the page shows nothing... on multiple ocassions you have this:

target="f1""

You need to remove that extra quote.
Also your comment tags are wrong, you have:

<!---start mp3 ---!>

when it should be

<!---start mp3 --->

Also in your style sheets (you can put them all into 1<style> tag, you have

{
font-family: tahoma;
font-size: 9px;
color: #B2A27E;
}

You need a selector before the {. Also in the style:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #b2a27e;
}
.style2 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #4C2401;
}
.style4 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 9px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #a23b01;
}
.style5 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 9px;
	color: #5d533b;
}
</style>

You forgot the closing comment tag, it should be

<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #b2a27e;
}
.style2 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #4C2401;
}
.style4 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 9px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #a23b01;
}
.style5 {
	font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 9px;
	color: #5d533b;
}
--></style>

That fixes the rendering issues in Safari, and the code is more accurate. For the IE problem, try making the background of the news.htm file the background you want for the background of the iFrame, IE may not support iFrame backgrounds via CSS. Or try adding

transparency="true"

to your iFrame tag.