jQuery png issues in IE 8

I'm really loving the jQuery cycle plugin but am having serious trouble getting it to behave appropriately in IE8. In all of my cycles I'm using png files with transparencies (no differently then any other modern site on the web). They look very good in EVERY browser but IE whe开发者_JAVA技巧re I get ugly black shadowing around the edges of gradients and all black background behind one of the slideshows. I'm using the 'cleartype: true, cleartypeNoBg: true,' fix in all of the slideshows as well as the following CSS fix:

img {
    background: transparent;
    -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF)"; /* IE8 */   
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF);   /* IE6 & 7 */      
    zoom: 1;

}

In the main slideshow I have two overlapping - http://microstrain.com

And in the bottom three column section I have a cycle running in the 'News Update' section.

Any help would be greatly appreciated here!!! - Scott

I know you set the zoom & transparency, but try setting them on the div encompassing the a which encompasses the image tag.

I ran into this recently on another site of mine and found the 'img' tag did not work but setting it on '[container] img' did.