Quick website lookover :)

[tsinc80697]

Hey, just spent the last 2-3hours making my mate a website for one of his uni modules, its a music course but he has to do web programming :/

Exo remedy

Looks fine in FF but in IE the content font doesn't change to Verdana, and on the left content the "Change Me" doesn't seem to accept the line break to go below, and the text colour is different in these headers from FF version.
Probably some noob mistake from me but just wondering if anyone knows

All the pictures were supplied by him, i just resized some of them.
Only thing graphically i made was the navigation at the top.
it all validates XHTML Strict which is always good

One thing that must be ignored for now is viewing it in a small space, i know the left and right content windows overlap the main content if the screen isn't big enough. This is just to me making it in 1280*1024 to make sure i got everything to work. Tomorrow i'll resize the central content so it looks fine on smaller resolutions.
Was just wondering what ways other people use for 3 column websites which must have a banner like this one.

As usual website critique welcome, only took a few hours so i don't mind

edit: ignore the releases page, its just full of text from my site as he didn't have the content with him tonight

 

[tsinc80697]

criticisms fine!
I only knocked up what he told me to, was just.
I don't like plain black and red text a lot, gonna speak to him about changing it, but it is his project.
Besides from the red/black, is there anything that could be improved via code, it all validates Strict but is there anything that can be done better?

edit: just realised why BG is all black, as it matches the banner image and he didn't want that changing

2nd edit: Exo V2