Jitspoe,
You should be able to enable translucency in IE using <ELEMENT STYLE=
"filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50)">
element being a td or whatever
or via javascript: object.style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50)"
object.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=50)" might even be enough