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Unfortunately, it seems as if the Stylesheet Editor modifies the inserted CSS quite heavily -- at least more than what it is supposed to do. Specifically, as I have no access to seperate stylesheets for IE, I have to resort to using inline hacks (think star (*) and underscore hack (_)). However, both characters seem to be removed on submitting the revised stylesheet resulting in the property being parsed by all browsers -- not what I was looking for.

On top of that the editor also seems to make too much sense of things it doesn't yet know about. For example, using cross-browser CSS3 gradients results (see code example below) in just a messy and invalid 'background-image' property.

background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffe9ad, #fabb52);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#ffe9ad), to(#fabb52));

Now, I can live without the fancy gradients, but when (sometimes) necessary IE hacks are removed I don't really have a lot of use for using WordPress.com's services. It looks like I'll need to install WordPress on our own web server, which is a shame as that would leave us without some of the prime advantages (I'd say: managed/secure, speed and uptime not dependant on our own services) of using a hosted solution.

But before I do that I thought I'd come here and ask around. I fear there's no solution to the problem right now, but hopefully there will be at some time in the future?

Note: the blog I am working on is not linked to this account and currently in private mode. I can provide more code examples if required (though shouldn't need to).