title: jQuery using .animate() fails to do ANYTHING in IE8
body: <p>So, it's official:  I hate Internet Explorer.  Yes, all bloody versions of it.  :-D</p>
  
  <p>So, I didn't think I was doing anything complicated here, but apparently I am.  I have a bunch of list items in an unordered list styled for a navigation menu, and in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, things work fine.  What is supposed to happen is when you hover a navigational item, it should animate some growth and animate a background color change.  </p>
  
  <p>Nothing happens in Internet Explorer 7/8.</p>
  
  <p>I think it's just tied to the animate function, since if I swap .animate with .css, it works.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://project-cypher.net/wtf/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://project-cypher.net/wtf/</a> (*url removed - problem solved)</p>
  
  <p>Ideas?</p>