Getting Invalid Argument.js error in IE8 when Fixed Columns data table is used.

Getting Invalid Argument.js error in IE8 when Fixed Columns data table is used.

The following error message is thrown in IE8 browser.


Webpage error details:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC LM 8)
Timestamp: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:23:06 UTC


Message: Invalid argument.
Line: 938
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: https://c.cs15.visual.force.com/resource/1360072001000/FixedColumns_2_0_3/FixedColumns-2.0.3/media/js/FixedColumns.js

Here is my sample code:

function initTablePA(){
    alert('Inside Table PA 980');
    productsTbl = j$(getHtmlId('pageId:formId:searchCriteria:insprd:inspa')).dataTable({
        "sScrollX" : "100%",
        "sScrollY": "300px",
        "bPaginate" : false,
        "bSort" : false,
        "bFilter" : false,
        "bScrollCollapse" : true,
        "bRetrieve" : true,
        "bAutoWidth": true
    });
     alert('Inside Table PA 991');
    new FixedColumns(productsTbl, {
        "iLeftColumns" : 2,
        "iLeftWidth" : 250
    });
     alert('Inside Table PA 996');
    return productsTbl;
   
}