absolute position changed without a css change

I took a copy of the latest release of an MVC2 project I have been working on and started playing around with how to make a wizard with jquery by using hide() and show(). Each step is in its own div so hiding and showing is easy.

The problem is that somewhere along the line I must have done something to change the way IE positions my elements. Now all page (e开发者_如何学运维ven the ones I didn't touch) have content moved up and to the left.

The really weird part is I have done a file comparison on my css file and all other files involved in the render. No difference is present. Firefox does render everything beautifully... its driving me crazy. Is this an IE bug or something... Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Posting your code would help, even snippets of the relevant code. Off the top of my head though, it sounds like position:relative was removed from the outer container.