[jQuery] IE, Ajax and colspans

[jQuery] IE, Ajax and colspans


I'm having a very weird problem that manifests itself only in IE - both
6.x and 7.x
I use taconite to retrieve a table from the server:
<taconite>
    <replaceContent select="#data">
        <table style="width: 90%">
             <tbody>
                 <tr>
                     <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">
                     </td>
                     <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">
                         <strong>Board</strong>
                     </td>
                     <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top" colspan="2">
                         <strong>1 ADL</strong>
                     </td>
                     <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top" colspan="2">
                         <strong>1 ADL + 1 CHLD 7-12</strong>
                     </td>
                     <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top" colspan="2">
                         <strong>1 ADL + 2 CHLD 7-12</strong>
                     </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                     <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">
                         Standart Room
                     </td>
                     <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">
                         BB
                     </td>
                     <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">125</td>
                     <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong>166</strong></td>
                    
                     <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">140</td>
                     <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong>185</strong></td>
            
                     <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">158</td>
                     <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong>249</strong></td>
                </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </replaceContent>
</taconite>
When this taconite gets executed IE disregards the colspans and places a
single cell in each column:
Expected:
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Explorer:
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And I have no freaking idea why this is happening. Please, help :)