I headed over to the WordPress support forum and asked about the sliding text. Someone pointed me to another similar thread where I found the disgustingly simple fix for it.
This is not an unusual problem and has several varieties. Position Is Everything has a good page of information about this problem.
CSS works by using the DIV command. IE can’t figure out which DIV does what so it freaks. For some reason, all I had to do was add a border to the blockquote CSS.
blockquote {
border-left: 5px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 5px solid #ccc;
margin-left: 1.5em;
background-color: #C5C3BF;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px; }
I already had the border-left so all I did was duplicate it for the border-bottom. So simple!
This problem has been addressed within the WordPress forum. This thread, IE Creeping Text and the Holy Hack, covers it and the solution is given. A second thread, My Content Slides, also covers this issue.
Again, if you use IE and have a problem with this site, let me know. Take a screenshot of the problem or describe it to me the best way you can. Meantime, I will make it a habit to check out my site via IE.