fallback border for image with shadow in ie - html

Question

so i have a nice box-shadow that seems to work in all browsers except ie 8 and below. I need my site to be compatible for IE 8.
here is the effect that i'm referring to:
http://unifiedforuganda.com/ugandanprograms.html
here is the relevant css:
.program-image {
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 400px;
padding: 2px;
margin: 10px 20px 10px 0;
-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 15px 3px #414141;
-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 15px 3px #414141;
box-shadow: 3px 3px 15px 3px #414141;
}
i don't care about the shadow showing up in IE but is it possible to have a black border be there for the image only when the shadow is not rendered? i want to avoid IE conditional sheets if possible
EDIT: seems i even have to use conditional comments or use a hack which i don't want to. now just have to figure out to use the conditional comments for IE....

Answer 1

As you can see here, box-shadow is not supported until IE9. But here is a SO post expalining the usability of box-shadow in IE8 and below.

Answer 2

so i ended up using conditional comments in the of the html document...simplier than i thought....here the code i ended up using:
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<style type="text/css">
.program-image { border: 1px solid black; }
</style>
<![endif]-->
this will target the .program-image class that normally has the box shadow working in most other browsers but when that fails, the above code will kick in and apply a small black border...this is the css:
.program-image {
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 400px;
padding: 2px;
margin: 10px 20px 10px 0;
-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 15px 3px #414141;
-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 15px 3px #414141;
box-shadow: 3px 3px 15px 3px #414141;
}