Please no comments on the design of this page since they are my requirements. Page displays and behaves nicely in Firefox 24.0 but no so in IE 8.0.7601.17514. You will notice on the right sidebar that the regions that are colliding and showing some mysterious graphics in the middle. The right sidebar is made up of 4 regions in total and it is most likely the source of the issue.
The application can be viewed here:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=49959:1
Jeff