Floated div dropping below others in IE and FF - html

I'm having an odd problem with some floated divs on this page that I'm working on. There are 3 of them across the page, with 1em margins between. In Chrome they line up perfectly, but in IE and FF, the right hand one drops a little - but not all the way below. I thought this might be best described with a picture, please see below:
I can't work out which bit of the CSS is causing this - I've been through the new FF code inspector and highlighted all block level objects with the webdev toolbar but can't see anything that would cause such a drop.
I did wonder if it was something within the JS twitter feed causing it, but I've swapped round the Twitter and "Update" boxes and it's always the right-hand one. I've also tried removing additional elements from the page - everything between the menu and these three boxes.
I must admit, I'm at my wit's end! Can anyone spot something obvious I've missed? The CSS is fairly large, and I'm not sure which bit to show, so I haven't copied it in in, but will do if anyone desires. Otherwise everything can be viewed at http://www.woodexperts.com

Change width: 15.25em in div#main div.tricolumn to width: 15.24em
That should take care of the issue.

I understand that this is a hack, but if IE is the only browser causing problems, you might want to consider IE conditional comments that restrict certain styles only for IE:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms537512(v=vs.85).aspx

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Here is the code for the page in question: http://pastebin.com/uvrPR1JW
Here is the code for a similar, but functioning page for reference: http://pastebin.com/5dAMREfC
They're running off the same style sheet so the issue is likely in the HTML, however the style sheet is linked in the comment section for reference. If anyone spots any reason why it would be doing anything like this it'd be great to know. And I apologize for the messy code, as I said I'm just playing around with it.
Update:
You may notice that my code includes at least one flexbox, here is question posted by another user that may be related but I can't make heads or tails of it: Chrome shrinks figure elements as they are added to a flexbox
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What's worse, if I copy the code for the first two links (upper left and upper right thumbnails) and paste the code in below the first two entries, the thumbnails show up AND the links work!
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Second problem, is that it also makes a box on this page
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On the second example it messes with the user photo moves it into a box that should not be there. Along with the follow forum button. Which should be right below in the box as well. To see how it should look check those pages in any browser but ie. I really could use a fix for this. If its a css thing i have a ie specific css file i can put code in i just cant figure out what i need to put in there.
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Looks like you have something going on that's changing your HTML or your DOM based on the browser. Likely you either have some client or server side code that manipulating things in a browser-variant way.
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I'll start by saying this is not my work, but I am trying to figure out how to fix it nonetheless... Here is the page in question:
http://www.getredwood.com/pro/
The three content areas at the bottom are the part in question. It looks fine when I look at it in Firefox or Chrome, but in IE 9, everything collapses left to right and the boxes actually overlap each other a bit. The CSS that's in there now looks a bit of a mess and I'm not sure where to begin. Would be most grateful for any ideas. Thanks!
I'm not sure whether I need to post the CSS code here or not...it should be visible through "Inspect Element" in FF, but if anyone can't see it, please let me know...
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Here are some links that should help you out
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_browser.asp
Best of luck to you
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Image depiction (from FF7.0.1, win7):
Add display: inline-block; to .box_content.
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Validate your html for that list of errors that needs fixing. Then validate your CSS. I didn't run through that.
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Lesson of the day: ALWAYS set padding and margin to 0 for any custom class or id!