Mark,
> Since I am currently just using this in a personal site, it's not that big
a
> deal, but I am curious about it. And curious why IE5.x/Windows works, but
> IE6 doesn't...
In my tests, it doesn't work in _either_ IE 5.x/Win32 (including IE 5.5)
or IE 6/Win32. In both cases, when border-color is set to transparent, IE
paints the border with the value of the element's color property.
James Aylard