Absolutely Relatively Fixed

Actually its not fixed yet. What i mean to say is:

1. My entire system is a single page layout and hence the logical way of designing this is to layout my elements with position: fixed, i.e. fixed to the points on the screen and not the containing element (position: absolute).
2. Actually *hehe* I set them to be position: absolute at first, but thats only because positioning them relative to the containing element gives the same effect as positioning relative to the screen.
3. Alright, so turns out that IE7 behaves wierd when I use position: absolute (I can no longer remember why or how), so I changed them to position: fixed.
4. But hohoho IE6 doesnt support position: fixed. So I had to change them to position: absolute. This is where the fun begins: In setting position:absolute, you cant set all four top, left, right, and bottom corner offsets. Only a pair (e.g. top, left) is allowed and then you have to set height and width.
5. So now for IE6, I have to hack my way to make them display correctly with a combination of unmentionable paddings, margins, and my most poweful tool: position: relative (which can offset from top, left, right and bottom -- but its presence affects sibling elements unlike position: absolute  or position: fixed)

I think Im about 80% done. But I cant really say. Im not even sure if I can emulate the proper layout with such restrictions. Why cant everyone just ugrade their browsers. Its free you know?