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After hours of trying different floats, padding, clearing etc, the fix is despairingly simple - just put a position:relative element in the div that contains the border declaration, as follows:
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<div style= "position:relative; border: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 20px; padding-right:8px;”>

http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/knocked-out-border-by-float-in-ie6

Vanishing borders in IE6 fix!

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