Internet Explorer 8 woes

Hi guys

I have almost finished developing my application when I started
debugging IE 8about two days ago. Will not be supporting IE6 but hey,
we cannot block out IE completely?

I am back trying to get a basic map to load without IE complaining. No
luck so far. I am using IE8 on top of XP SP2 running in VirtualBox on
my dev machine.

Here is a link to the barebones page:
http://gk-linux.sanparks.org/tourism/map/test.php

And here is my current error:
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Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/
4.0)
Timestamp: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:27:34 UTC

Message: Invalid character
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/140g/maps2.api/mod_display_manager.js
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I have also noted that I cannot even load examples in the maps
documentation with IE8 - that does not bode well I guess....

My main application sits here: http://gk-linux.sanparks.org/tourism/map/

I am using jquery and all kinds of other fancies there. But will be
happy if I can get a standard map working in IE8 and take it from
there.

Thanks.
Pieter.