having problemt with jquery load() in IE

having problemt with jquery load() in IE

Hi,

I have a situation where jquery .load() function works in FF and not in IE.
var url = 'someURL';
$("#mailPreferencesDiv").load(url + " #mailPreferencesDiv");

the above code loads contents properly in FF but in IE it sets the content of the div with id mailPreferencesDiv to empty string.

Any idea why would it be doing so?

Thank you,

Raghav