I did some research and I found something that might be worth a try.
Please try this modification:<img style="width: 128px; height: 128px; float: left; display: inline" id = "playbutton" alt=""></td>
Thanks, Pako
thanks for checking into this. I get the identical behavior, with or without the "display: inline".
When in the "play" state it shows a black box, when in the "pause" state it shows an overlay of the playbutton with the cover thumbnail underneath.
I read in some comments about the float issues that it is something in the css code.
What is really strange is that it works for Pause state, in which case the playbutton sits on top of the cover thumbnail (from my limited understanding). But it does not work for the Play state when the cover thumbnail should show. There should really be no difference, right?
almost sounds like a hiccup in the sequence of these two that IE gets messed up.
edit: I also noticed that the "repeat" button and the "shuffle" button never change icon states. The buttons however do work and change the state in MB, although I cannot invoke the repeat one (it's either all or none). This is possibly related to the playbutton, thumbnail issue.
cheers!