jquery cycle inserting bg-color behind text in IE only

jquery cycle inserting bg-color behind text in IE only

Hi,

I'm using jquery cycle to scroll through testimonials in the bottom left corner of http://www.truscience.com/trutein.html In IE only jquery cycle inserts background-color:#d0d0d0 in the divs the cycle. This problem only happens in IE, not FF or Opera, Chrome, etc. Additionally, I've tried manually inserting background: none; and background-color: transparent !important in the div (#testimonial1, #testimonial2...) but the cycle plugin seems to override these and puts in the #d0d0d0 despite my travails.

What can I do to get rid of this bg color behind the text?
Thanks,

Greg