We've seen IE6 reposition the contents of the right side to other areas on the page. Newer releases not as prone to do so. VERY annoying! We just hope there are fewer and fewer users every day using IE!

thanks secretsquirrel for letting me know - yes hopefully IE becomes redundant...
thanks

I just checked your site (I'm sure you've done the same) on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE8.
Internet Explorer is the only one that is not showing your right sidebar.
Are you using one of the themes from the marketplace or is yours custom? The theme developer may be the first place to check for a patch.

(By the way. Seeing NZ as the site focus... I hope the recent earthquake has not affected you and your friends/family! Best of luck)

it is a theme so i will check and see who its from - TC who built it is working on a safari park in africa right now so can't ask him - but thanks for your good idea on contacting the theme owner

thanks Steve for taking the time to investigate I really appreciate it. I normally use the paste as plain text function in the CMS editor but will try putting into Notepad first then pasting in.
many thanks for your great help.