IE not displaying first line of returned data from AJAX call

IE not displaying first line of returned data from AJAX call

Hi there,
I'm having a little problem with a jQuery/JS script I just wrote in IE7/8. The problem is the first 2 lines of the returned data are not being displayed (w or wo styling) but only in IE.  The strange thing is though if I alert the returned data it's there.


the code can be found at http://www.goptown.com/ajax2.html


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Stefan