Coding Issue (Wordpress) Error message Stylesheet issue maybe

[snakeair]

This is not the blog in my siggie. I just bought a wordpress site and the creator logged off to go to bed after helping me with lot of other things after purchasing. Because of the Time zone issue, he had to go to bed.

When i am in my admin panel on some menu buttons i visit to ediit some settings i get this error message that pops up on a blank IE screen "Please switch to Firefox / Safari" Now the creator of the site had no issues using IE 7 and with those other browsers but i am using IE8. I don't want to have to download other browsers just to be able to edit certain settings on the blog. I can access other menu links but certain ones i get that message.

Is this a problem a bad plugin or with my Stylesheet? I am not a coding wiz and not going to post the URL just yet, still have things to change but need to get this issue out of the way.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

1. Are you using the latest version of WP?

2. Did this come with a custom admin theme?

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by htmlbasictutor

1. Are you using the latest version of WP?

2. Did this come with a custom admin theme?

Yes i am using wordpress 2.9.1

What do you mean by custom admin theme? It's just the normal wordpress admin panel options with few extra's since there is other plugins installed. No special coding done to the admin panel.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Originally Posted by snakeair

What do you mean by custom admin theme? It's just the normal wordpress admin panel options with few extra's since there is other plugins installed. No special coding done to the admin panel.

Have seen some plugins for customizing the admin side, just thought I'd ask as a problem solving route.

Using version 2.8.6 and IE8 one can't reply to a comment from the admin. Thought they might have fixed that in 2.9.1. Evidently not.

What happens if you tell IE8 to use compatibility mode? Not a solution I like, but maybe it will solve your immediate problem.

Edit:
There's a conditional statement in the head of the admin code source to use a different stylesheet if IE7. = the coders did not take the time to make this cross-browser compatible using a single stylesheet.

[snakeair]

Thanks for your help. After eating something and doing a search i found my answer. It was a issue with the WP Omatic plugin. The fix for this is on this page. (5th post on that page) http://wordpress.org/support/topic/310640