diff --git a/src/agenda/AgendaEventRenderer.js b/src/agenda/AgendaEventRenderer.js
index 423d14c..fe67808 100644
--- a/src/agenda/AgendaEventRenderer.js
+++ b/src/agenda/AgendaEventRenderer.js
@@ -420,9 +420,7 @@ function AgendaEventRenderer() {
 				if (revert) {
 					// hasn't moved or is out of bounds (draggable has already reverted)
 					resetElement();
-					if ($.browser.msie) {
-						eventElement.css('filter', ''); // clear IE opacity side-effects
-					}
+					eventElement.css('filter', ''); // clear IE opacity side-effects
 					showEvents(event, eventElement);
 				}else{
 					// changed!
@@ -473,9 +471,6 @@ function AgendaEventRenderer() {
 			start: function(ev, ui) {
 				trigger('eventDragStart', eventElement, event, ev, ui);
 				hideEvents(event, eventElement);
-				if ($.browser.msie) {
-					eventElement.find('div.fc-event-bg').hide(); // nested opacities mess up in IE, just hide
-				}
 				origPosition = eventElement.position();
 				minuteDelta = prevMinuteDelta = 0;
 				hoverListener.start(function(cell, origCell, rowDelta, colDelta) {
@@ -523,12 +518,6 @@ function AgendaEventRenderer() {
 					resetElement();
 					eventElement.css(origPosition); // sometimes fast drags make event revert to wrong position
 					updateTimeText(0);
-					if ($.browser.msie) { // TODO: dont use browser detection. base off of the presence of filter
-						eventElement
-							.css('filter', '') // clear IE opacity side-effects
-							.find('div.fc-event-bg')
-								.show();
-					}
 					showEvents(event, eventElement);
 				}
 			}
@@ -568,9 +557,6 @@ function AgendaEventRenderer() {
 			start: function(ev, ui) {
 				slotDelta = prevSlotDelta = 0;
 				hideEvents(event, eventElement);
-				if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version == '6.0') {
-					eventElement.css('overflow', 'hidden');
-				}
 				eventElement.css('z-index', 9);
 				trigger('eventResizeStart', this, event, ev, ui);
 			},
diff --git a/src/agenda/AgendaView.js b/src/agenda/AgendaView.js
index 67b2201..b38f8e4 100644
--- a/src/agenda/AgendaView.js
+++ b/src/agenda/AgendaView.js
@@ -708,9 +708,6 @@ function AgendaView(element, calendar, viewName) {
 							},
 							rect
 						));
-						if ($.browser.msie) {
-							selectionHelper.find('div.fc-event-bg').hide(); // nested opacities mess up in IE, just hide
-						}
 						selectionHelper.css('opacity', opt('dragOpacity'));
 					}
 					if (selectionHelper) {
diff --git a/src/agenda/agenda.css b/src/agenda/agenda.css
index 4c2ab59..0685fd3 100644
--- a/src/agenda/agenda.css
+++ b/src/agenda/agenda.css
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@
 	filter: alpha(opacity=30);
 	}
 	
+.fc .ui-draggable-dragging .fc-event-bg {
+	display: none\9; /* for IE6/7/8. nested opacity filters while dragging don't work */
+	}
+	
 /* resizable */
 	
 .fc-event-vert .ui-resizable-s {
@@ -132,4 +136,8 @@
 	cursor: s-resize;
 	}
 	
+.fc-agenda .ui-resizable-resizing { /* TODO: better selector */
+	_overflow: hidden;
+	}
+	
 	
diff --git a/src/basic/BasicEventRenderer.js b/src/basic/BasicEventRenderer.js
index e7a211b..3c1acc6 100644
--- a/src/basic/BasicEventRenderer.js
+++ b/src/basic/BasicEventRenderer.js
@@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ function BasicEventRenderer() {
 				if (dayDelta) {
 					eventDrop(this, event, dayDelta, 0, event.allDay, ev, ui);
 				}else{
-					if ($.browser.msie) {
-						eventElement.css('filter', ''); // clear IE opacity side-effects
-					}
+					eventElement.css('filter', ''); // clear IE opacity side-effects
 					showEvents(event, eventElement);
 				}
 				//setOverflowHidden(false);
diff --git a/src/common/DayEventRenderer.js b/src/common/DayEventRenderer.js
index 15a9ce6..190d628 100644
--- a/src/common/DayEventRenderer.js
+++ b/src/common/DayEventRenderer.js
@@ -189,7 +189,9 @@ function DayEventRenderer() {
 				"</div>";
 			if (seg.isEnd && isEventResizable(event)) {
 				html +=
-					"<div class='ui-resizable-handle ui-resizable-" + (rtl ? 'w' : 'e') + "'></div>";
+					"<div class='ui-resizable-handle ui-resizable-" + (rtl ? 'w' : 'e') + "'>" +
+					"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" + // makes hit area a lot better for IE6/7
+					"</div>";
 			}
 			html +=
 				"</" + (url ? "a" : "div" ) + ">";
diff --git a/src/common/common.css b/src/common/common.css
index 4ee1b54..2f2eb8c 100644
--- a/src/common/common.css
+++ b/src/common/common.css
@@ -177,8 +177,9 @@ a.fc-event {
 	display: block;
 	position: absolute;
 	z-index: 99999;
-	border: 0 !important; /* important overrides pre jquery ui 1.7 styles */
-	background: url(data:image/gif;base64,AAAA) !important; /* hover fix for IE */
+	overflow: hidden; /* hacky spaces (IE6/7) */
+	font-size: 300%;  /* */
+	line-height: 50%; /* */
 	}