Text doesnt align in IE but works with Mozilla and Chrome

[panos100m]

I cant put the text (register,members,find) in the center of the three buttons using Internet explorer...

Any help will be much appreciated

(html code below)

<td class="ct">
<!-- menu table starts here -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="width100per" id="intro-menu-tbl">
<tr>
<td width="77" class="lt">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="cm"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="width100per" id="top-mnu-tbl">
<tr>
<td width="172" class="cm bdr-l">&nbsp;</td>
 
<td class="menu-txt bdr-l "><a href="member.php"> members</a></td>
<td align="middle" {if $tab_check eq 7}class="menu-txt-search bdr-l "{else}class="menu-txt-search bdr-l "{/if}><a align="middle" href="search_sp.php">find </a></td> 
<td class="cm menu-txt bdr-l"><a href="become_user.php">register</a></td>
 
<td width="172" class="cm bdr-l">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
//css properties 
.menu-txt{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:11px;
color:#9E9E9E;
text-align: center;
 
vertical-align:middle;
/*text-transform:uppercase;*/
}
.menu-txt a{
color: #FFFFFF;
/*text-transform:uppercase;*/
text-decoration:none; 
}
.menu-txt a:hover{
color:#FB0206;
}
.ct, .cb, .cm {
text-align:center;
}
.lt, .rt, .ct {
vertical-align:top;
}
.lt, .lm, .lb {
text-align:left;
}

[roundabend]

same problem here.... guess this is what we should expect from sub standard products like IE.. :(

any ideas people?

cheers!!