jQuery validate() plugin, IE6, simple solution

I have been using the jQuery validate plugin for just about every form I've created in the past year or more. Easy, robust, beautiful stuff by world-class jQuery coder Jörn Zaefferer ( plugin page ) ... if you haven't checked it out yet, please do!

Anyway, tonight I had (yet another) strange thing happen in IE6 - basically, nothing was happening. The form i was working on was able to submit in IE6 as if javascript was disabled - no errors, no message, nothing. As usual, everything was fine in Firefox (firebug) and IE7, and I was stumped as only IE6 can stump me... then, thanks to Google, I found this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/843bc94ffef99250

Apparently there is something in the packed version of the validation file (jquery.validate.pack.js) that IE6 does not like. The solution? Don't use the packed version! Takes up a little more bandwidth but at least it works in all browsers.

Now - how much longer do we have to keep caring about IE6? (In this case, the offending browser is on the client's computer, so I have to play nice as much as possible...)