IE & dom ready

IE & dom ready

After browsing online it looks like there used to be an issue with IE's onload event but got fixed (a while back? 2006?) - however I'm having troubles getting it to work. I'm working on implementing workarounds, but thought i'd ask first (since this should be something that works in the core api). Are there any special measures that need to be taken with IE and the $(document).ready()? If not, is there a prefferred solution out there ?
Thanks,
-- Nirvana