Sorry, Explorers!

For those of you reading this in Micro$oft IE, I really do have a side bar, a blogroll, and some interesting links...but I can't get them to show in IE. Also, the bottom post's comment link is jacked, but I can't figure out the problem in the template (after all, it all works in Firefox); this is probably what's keeping the sidebar from loading. Could one of you Javascript gurus out there do a View Source and see what's screwed up? I see some lines specifically addressing IE, but it's all Greek to me:

a.comment-link {
/* ie5.0/win doesn't apply padding to inline elements,
so we hide these two declarations from it */
background/* */:/**/url(http://www.blogblog.com/thisaway/icon_comment.gif) no-repeat 0 45%;
padding-left: 14px;
}

html>body a.comment-link {
/* respecified, for ie5/mac's benefit */
background: url(http://www.blogblog.com/thisaway/icon_comment.gif) no-repeat 0 45%;
padding-left: 14px;
}