The thing is that this dark skin was coded by Baez. He did a lot of CSS work to get it looking like this. While doing so, he removed some aspect that were originally in the vB skin CSS that we felt were not needed. Well now it has caused a issue with IE displaying properly.
All the other browsers display properly and IE8 should as well. But it is the way that IE8 handles certain code which is causing this issue. We have yet to find the specific code which is causing this. With Baez being unavailable at this time due to prior commitments there is no time frame on when we will get it fixed.
I have made note of these items and more in the Welcome Thread with some links as well for certain items so that they can still be used within IE.