@cbassthefish

Thanks for that pointer. While going through the Labs bit, I came across the following section:

Rules that use the :hover pseudo-selector on non-anchor elements. This can cause performance problems in Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8 when a strict doctype is used.

* div.paginate_btn:hover
* #isButton.notify_message:hover
* #isButton.notify_message_none:hover
* #isButton.notify_message:hover table.notify
* .actionsBlock .button_input_wrapper:hover
see more * .topMenu td.top:hover ul.sub
* .topMenu td.top:hover ul.sub
* .topMenu ul.sub li:hover
* .topMenu ul.sub ul.more_sub li:hover
* .topMenu td.top:hover a.top_link
* .topMenu td.top:hover a.top_link:link
* .topMenu td.top:hover a.top_link:visited
* .topMenu td.top:hover a.top_link:active
* .topMenu td.top:hover a span.down
* .topMenu td.top:hover b span.down
* .topMenu .top ul.sub .li_last_round:hover
* .button_wrapper:hover
* .button_wrapper:hover .button_wrapper_close
* input[type="submit"]:hover
* input[type="button"]:hover
* input[type="reset"]:hover
* input.submit:hover
* input.button:hover
* input.reset:hover
* .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-prev:hover
* .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-next:hover

The question that I would like to put out to all is that could this be one of the way that IE7 and IE8 can be remedied?