Just drop that shitty browser so you can use :before and :after pseudo-classes instead of dealing with all this crap.

How does the site look in a better browser? Are there design problems that I can't see with IE? At resolution 1080x800, does the site look fine?

Thanks for the input syphon, I've been wondering about downloading and using firefox again. IE works quite fast for slower computers like mine, but I'm sure FF is pretty fast on most computers anyways.

Has anybody ever switched layouts and kept their content intact? So all those links and images, text and whatnot will automatically be useable in the next layout? Just wondering how much web experience some of you have, so hopefully I could maybe gain some insight into my ponderings...

Delete that. It just makes you look more like a noob. No one is going to change their resolution or browser size to fit that resolution, so it's pointless.
Getting the whole page to center would make it look nicer at higher resolutions.

1080x800?
Is that resolution even remotely common? I've honestly never heard of that one before.

It's somewhat common on laptops, though all my friends and mine, except for the one with a macbook, has 1366 x 768 instead.