Thanks uk for the great support.
I tried the code in a html page within vbulletin (easy pages and Logician's WebTemplates) in ie and it works fine..
so the problem lies within the vbadvanced module.
Since I'm going to use your VMS

in ultimate side colums , there wont be a problem in ie.
Any idea as to why VMS wont display properly in a vbadvanced block in ie for me ?
thankyou