making a TINY bit of progress on this, but maybe it will lead to the answer.
I've been putting a few alert statements into the clockpick.js to see if it would lead to an answer. It turns out by adding an alert to the end of the 'renderhours()' function, the hours display and then hide. So apparently the problem isn't that the clockpick does not show in ie, but rather that it shows quickly and then is hidden. I've commented out the 'hide' line, and added alerts into the other functions to try to find why it hides after loading, but have come up empty thus far. The newly 'alerted' page can be found at http://zifimusic.com/testing/clockpick-ie.php So the problem isn't that the clockpick doesn't display, but that it hides itself after it builds itself, it just all happens to quickly to see it.