[jQuery] Float div to left of jCarousel???

I'm having some trouble positioning jcarousel on the same line as and
to the right of another div. I would typically do this by placing
float: left on the left-placed div, but this apparently has bad
consequences for jcarousel. In FF, the clip div gets displaced to the
right, and in IE the entire jcarousel container gets pushed to the
right by the same amount as the width of the div I am trying to float
in front of it.
Has anyone done anything like this or have suggestions on how to
solve?
Code below.
Thanks.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /