broken by certain doctypes?

[alyarb]

I must say it took a while of eliminating elements before I found out it was my doctype string causing it.

here's a dump of the home page and you can see how the background image should look in a browser supporting background-size:

http://www.sdc-hosting.com/images/files/nb/site/site.htm

However, in ie8, only a white (null?) background image is displayed (though you can briefly see the original unscaled image if you hammer F5)

In the first link's source, you'll see

However, the image will display and scale properly in ie8 if I reduce this to

but that will break the positioning of my DIVs, you can see the result here:

http://www.sdc-hosting.com/images/files/nb/site/site2.htm

I am pretty close to just giving up on a background scaler for ie8, but I would really appreciate it if someone considered my case. Thanks a lot!