IE6/7 Cross-Browsing Help

IE6/7 Cross-Browsing Help

Hello,
first off I want to say I hate IE6. It needs to rot in a hole and never be spoken of again. With that said, I'm having problems with IE6/7.

I'm having problems with the Z-index, and also my .hover a href's not working after one session of mouse overs.

Here is the website I'm working on:
DEMO

I'm trying to use:
bgiframe  to fix IE6's lack of Z-index support.
But I don't think I have it set up right.

Here is the URL to my CSS(and the jQuery is in my HTML ):
stylesheet.css


Also, as for my .hover a href's here is the jQuery:
  1. $(function(){
        var navbar = $('#navbar'),
            navbarLinks = $(".navbarlink", navbar);
     
    navbarLinks.hover(function () {             
       navbarLinks.not(this).stop().animate({opacity: 0.3}, "slow");
        }, function () {      
            navbarLinks.stop().animate({opacity: 1.0}, "slow");       
        });
    });

    $(function(){
        var footer = $('#footer'),
            footerLinks = $(".footerlink", footer),
            allFadeables = $('.divider', footer).add(footerLinks);
     
    footerLinks.hover(function () {             
       allFadeables.not(this).stop().animate({opacity: 0.3}, "slow");
        }, function () {      
            allFadeables.stop().animate({opacity: 1.0}, "slow");       
        });
    });





















Lastly,
to make the PNG's work I'm using this:
http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/

If anyone could help me with cross-browsing for this dinosaur of a browser it would be greatly appreciated.

thank you,
tim