autocomplete widget and IE6

autocomplete widget and IE6

Evnin' (o;

Just got recently involved a little in using jquery-ui-1.8 and jquery-1.4.2 to use the nice autocomplete feature...
After digging through several documentation for all kinds of jquery autocomplete versions I found following simple snippet to work with Safari-4.0.5/Firefox-3.6.3 (both OSX and Windows) but not IE6:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>jQuery UI Auto Complete Widget Example 14</title>
<link type="text/css" href="/css/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.8.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link type="text/css" href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<div>
<label for="suggest"><b>Nodename:</b></label>
<input id="suggest">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-ui-1.8.custom.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//function to execute when doc ready
$(document).ready(function() {
//turn specified element into an auto-complete
$("#suggest").autocomplete({
source: "nodesearch.php",
minLength: 3
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>


I don't even see the script "nodesearch.php" being accessed when using IE6 nor any error messages...


any hints?