Events attached to <option> elements not recognized in IE, pls help!

Events attached to <option> elements not recognized in IE, pls help!

Hi! The following code is a minimal example that works perfectly in FF but not in IE. I need to obtain the value associated to an option when the mouse pointer is over that option. Any chance to get this under IE?

I'm new in jQuery development, please help!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function (evt) {
            $("#oo > option").mouseover(function() {
                alert($(this).val());
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>

<body><div>
    <select id="oo">
        <option value="0"></option>
        <option value="1">yada yada</option>
    </select>
</div></body>
</html>