I'll preface this by stating that I'm not a developer… With some insight from friend and collegue Jackson Gabbard, I was able to work around IE's failure to return anything from Get by using hidden divs and the load function. It goes something like this: 1. Hide a div. 2. add a blank image tag to that div. 3. load an image into that image tag. 4. once that image is done loading, show the hidden div.

Here's roughly the jQuery I used to get this done:

$(document).ready(function(){

function fadeInImg() {
$("#port_wrapper").fadeIn(2000);
}
$("#portfolio img").click(function(){ // any image inside the portfolio div calls this function on click (div that holds the thumbnails)

var id = $(this).attr("id"); // used to determine which image to get based on the thumbnail image id attribute

$("#port_wrapper").fadeOut(2000, loadPortImg); // fade out current image (if any) from the and calls the img loading function

function loadPortImg() {
$("#port_wrapper").empty(); // clear any imaage currently loaded. (#port_wrapper holds the large images)
$("#port_wrapper").append(""); // add new empty image tag as loading "shell"

$("#loaded_img").load(function() { // once the loaded_img div is fully loaded call fadeInBg funciton
fadeInImg();

});

$("#loaded_img").attr("src","images/" + id + ".jpg"); // now add the selected img src to the appended img tag (once this loads fully the fadeInBg function is called

} // stop loadPortImg function

}); // stop thumbnail click function

}); //stop jquery

Here's roughly the HTML I used to get this done: NOTE – the thumbnail image id attribute MUST be the same as the large image filename sans the ".jpg" file extension.

<div id="portfolio">
<a href="#"><img src="images/thumb.jpg" alt="Website Design icon" title="Some Website Design" id="somePortImgTitle" width="50″ height="50″ /></a>
</div> <!– stop portfolio div –>

<div id="port_wrapper"></div> <!– stop content_container –>

Like I said, I'm not a developer so there may be an easier way to get around this IE/get issue but this seems to work pretty well for me. Also excuse any mistyped terminology.
click here for a working example