IE8 body alignment and other issues

ISSUE 1
on this site (http://aaadraincleaning.com/aaa/) how come the site is aligned to the left, and not the middle, even though the #centercolumn has

margin:0 auto;
width:960px;


should that center it? what gives?

ISSUE 2
in the top nav bar, how come the subheadings dont line up right below the main page headings like they do in Chrome and Firefox?


ISSUE 3
how come the "AAA Guarantee" box in the middle slide area doesnt like up at the top of the slide like it does in Chrome and Firefox?



FYI, this is a Wordpress theme I installed so I'm trying to clean up these issues that came with it...

Please advise. thanks in advance!

Because there's some code before the doctype which is causing IE to render in Quirks mode:

<!-- CHILD INDEX FILE -->


Remove that comment and it should be fine.

good call. thank you! though i'm surprised that this code would cause an issue. isn't it correctly formatted to be just a comment?

Yes, but the doctype should always be the first thing on the page.