Why do firefox/chrome show a different page than IE8?

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Published on 2010-04-30T04:17:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 4:27 UTC
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When I look at this published Google Docs document, I see the latest version with Firefox and Chrome, but an older version with IE8. Also, screen-scraping it via PHP/Curl gives me an older version.

I've tried CTRL-Refresh in IE8 but I can't get it to show me the newest version. No matter what headers I try to change in PHP/Curl, I can't get it to show me the newest version.

What am I not understanding about browsers/headers/caching here? How can it be that different browsers show different contents of one page?

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