IE6 OR IE7 Position Absolute not showing

I don't know why, but for some reason in IE6 or IE7 if there is a floated layout and you have an absolute-positioned div in the mix sometimes it just won't show up. I played with the developer toolbar and if I edit any CSS property in the tool, the div magically shows up, but if I implement all the CSS in the stylesheet then reload the page it won't show up.

If you wrap your absolutely positioned element in an arbitrary div (we gave ours a class of 'positionFix') that ISN'T FLOATED, the absolutely positioned element should magically reappear.

This assumes that you have already made sure that any wrappers around the absolutely positioned element are either relatively positioned or absolutely positioned (that is a freshman-level mistake)

I'm only documenting this here so other lost souls don't spend so much time searching Google fruitlessly.

Another day lost due to Internet Explorer 7. Thanks IE.

I've had to find this solution twice, and both times it has cost me dearly - so I am posting here for as much my benefit as anyone else's.

Scenario: Calling a JavaScript function from within Flash using ExernalInterface when Flash is in a form.
Problem: IE7 throws an error when we call ExternalInterface. The error says "player is not defined" - "player" is the id I use for my flash object.
Reason: Apparently, IE can't find an object by ID within the DOM if that object is within a form.
Solution: At the end of the javascript that I use to write out the flash tags, I put this line of code:
player = document.getElementById('player');

Here is a better explanation and the solution (see the comment by IsaacTheIceMan from 19 Oct 2007)