Ok, I have tried for 2 days to go through the source code and find out what is wrong with this site.

If you view it in firefox it looks fine, but when you view it in IE it gets all screwy and the tables somewhat shift around etc..

http://www.tamut.edu/index2.php

if someone could please tell me why its not working and tell me how to fix it that would be great!

It looks like it may be a problem with the hotspots that you have use on the images to form the links,
Why don’t you try using text links?.

I guess that you only get the problem in IE7 and not 6

Are you talking about the white lines? When I threw it into IE and selected one of the weird elements, it shows a table cell with an image in it. You probably have something going on there in terms of padding or height not matching across the rowspans. Table-based layouts suck though and being that this is a University site, you may wish to look at tableless layouts to be more compliant with the laws on accessibility. As an example, go to your disability department and ask them to load that page using a screen reader. You'll quickly understand why tableless layouts are more friendly to those with disabilities (and, of course, it's more inline with the standards).

Anyway, here's an example of what I'm looking at in IE 7

Originally Posted by JeremyMiller

Are you talking about the white lines? When I threw it into IE and selected one of the weird elements, it shows a table cell with an image in it. You probably have something going on there in terms of padding or height not matching across the rowspans. Table-based layouts suck though and being that this is a University site, you may wish to look at tableless layouts to be more compliant with the laws on accessibility. As an example, go to your disability department and ask them to load that page using a screen reader. You'll quickly understand why tableless layouts are more friendly to those with disabilities (and, of course, it's more inline with the standards).

Anyway, here's an example of what I'm looking at in IE 7

ya i was thinking the same thing only im not sure which one it is.

OK. I took a guess that the math was off somewhere or some box got stretched somewhere. To fix that would only take aligning the graphics to the top of the TD cell, so I did that and found the bottom was a bit jacked, so I decided to see what would happen if I changed the background to black.

Wanna see? Search for <td and replace it with <td valign="top" style="background:#000000;" Then, reload.

Now, that search and replace is way oversimplified of a solution, but it does illustrate the solution and you should be able to take it from here.

Pretty please check out tableless design

P.S. For me to test this, I copied your HTML to my computer, prefixed the URLs with your URL and then did the search and replace. If other factors come into play that causes this not to work, it may help to know how I tested it.

Easy answer:

Use CSS