Rey, I did notice the speed difference in IE. Its amazing to see how mootools performs almost the same or even a little less faster than jQuery. I never imagined that the speed would vary this much with the browser.
Thanks for pointing this out. :) Again I am a newbie, trying out all kinds of stuff (javascript libraries, plugins - i love jQuery, linux versions, bsd versions :) ). Have never been a hardcore programmer except on the mainframes. Prit