IE8 negative margin issue

I have a layout issue in IE8 only where a negative margin does strange things.

I have tried to use some of the fixes I have found in this forum, but to no avail. It is Friday night after all!

The page is here: http://community.thelandtrust.org.uk/wordpress/

The culprit is the search field on the right hand side, which has a negative margin to allow the button to sit over it on the same line.

It works fine in all but IE8. In IE8, with a right margin of -80px the button is over the field but there is a large space to the right. With a right margin of -40px the button is on the next line, and still with a large space to the right.

I have noticed that it seems to be the same distance from the right each time. Is it a clearing issue?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

The code:

<form action="http://community.thelandtrust.org.uk/wordpress/" id="search-form" class="search-form" method="get">
    <div>
        <input type="text" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" value="Search..." id="search-text" name="s" class="search-text">
        <input type="submit" value="Go" id="search-submit" name="submit" class="search-submit button">
    </div>
</form>

The CSS:

input,textarea {
    background:#f7f9e0 url(images/Input_gradient.jpg) repeat-x top left;
    border:none;
    -moz-border-radius:20px;
    border-radius:20px;
    vertical-align:middle;
    min-height:20px;
    width:94%;
    font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size:1em;
    padding:10px 20px;
}
input.button,input#submit {
    background:#e6e99d url(images/Button_gradient.jpg) repeat-x bottom left;
    height:40px;
    width:auto;
    min-width:40px;
    font-weight:700;
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    float:right;
}
input.button:hover,input#submit:hover,#primary-menu li a:hover {
    background:#c7cc5c;
}
form#search-form{
    overflow: hidden;
}
input.search-text {
    margin-right: -80px;
    width: 200px;
    float:left;
    font-size: 1.2em;
}
input.search-submit {
    background:url(images/Button_arrow_40px.png) no-repeat 0 0 transparent!important;
    width:40px;
    text-indent:-1000px;
    font-size: 0;  
    display:block; 
    line-height: 0;
    float:right;
    clear:right;
}
input.search-submit:hover {
    background-position:0 -40px!important;
}

for some reason IE8 is making the button double width.

adding padding: 0; to input.search-submit seems to fix it