Beating My Head Against The Wall

Right, so I'm soliciting help now, as I've got a stylesheet issue.

It works like this: IE is refusing to stretch out the links box, despite the fact that it has both a left and right attribute set. In fact, IE seems to complete ignore the right attribute despite the fact that the W3C specification states that defining width using left and right attributes is a perfectly valid method. Rather it makes it just big enough to fit the contents and no larger. Instead I want it stretching out until 10px from the right edge of the window as it's doing in other browsers.

Ok, so completely ignore the right attribute isn't quite right. IE views the right attribute as a maximum. It will stretch a box out until it's the specified distance from the right edge and no farther if the content in the box is that large. If not, it will simply make the box smaller.

…And before anyone asks no, using width attributes is not an option.

God-damned non-standards-conforming piece of…

Anyone?