This style is also simpler in my eyes. Tested with IE 6 and Opera 7.23. I hope it works in other browsers too but I didn't test it.
I have applied your patch. It will turn out if it breaks something else (like Mozilla browsers :).
Goba
It is still broken for me: IE 6 SP2. Opera and Firefox work well, but W3C's Amaya is broken, too.
Nuno
