Sorry for the mis-direct. Unfortunately I made two changes in a single test and assumed the wrong one fixed the problem. I see this problem on my browser consistently. I have IE 6 SP1 Q813489, Q330994 and Q818529. I know others with SP! and a different set of fixpacks who don't get the issue. Heres ...

Its the empty alt tags alt="", get rid of them and your problems will go away.

I've seen it occur on certain fixpacks on SP1 of IE 6.