jquery $(document).ready not firing in IE iFrame

jquery $(document).ready not firing in IE iFrame

I have a web page with a form that I am presenting to the world through an iFrame in our university's content Manager system (not my choice!).  The form page is validated using jquery, but it is not working in IE 8.  The validation works fine with every other browser I've tried.  It appears that the $(document).ready event in the form page is being ignored, but only in IE, and I don't know how to fix that.  Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Keith