I know many people hate IE with a passion, but the fact is that the majority of people still use it and it is best to make things work for the majority of people whenever possible.
From the viewpoint of someone who's wanting to please as many users as possible, you're entirely right, but for the good of the www I think all hugely popular websites should write standards-compliant code without hacks for internet explorer to either make people move or make Microsoft buck up their ideas and fix their damn browser. I imagine someone like Myspace doing this would have a huge impact.
