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.