So when I checked the site on ie5.5 today, I noticed that the blog list only showed 1 li. and just the title.

But I soon realised after checking the html that it still made the whole list, it just didn't render it.
When I made the font size smaller, part of the date showed up, proving the rest of the list was simply hidden.

Removing the overflow: auto from the bloglist did work, but it also made the whole blog list render at once messing with the page layout.

I eventually figured out that by adding zoom: 1 to the ul inside it was solved