some observations on the failures of the IE5.5 box model as pertaining to my new Resume page. Given that the box model looks like this: [margin[padding[border[content]border]padding]margin] when absolutely positioning a box the top: left: is the outside of the [border. Also, while a background-image may appear within the block's padding, the background-color does not, leading me to use a 42px border. A simplified test case may prove something else to be at fault, but since my test box is still down I'll not be driving to the library again.