Alternative to position: relative; for overflow: auto; bug in IE7.

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I have content arranged thusly:

<div id="thumbnails" style="width: 40px; overflow: auto;">
  <div style="float:left; width: 20px;">content</div>
  <div style="float:left; width: 20px;">content</div>
  <div style="float:left; width: 20px;">content</div>
  <div style="float:left; width: 20px;">content</div>
  <div style="float:left; width: 20px;">content</div>
  <div style="float:left; width: 20px;">content</div>

In IE7 this shows up with the content running out of the scrollable box. The answer everywhere is to make #thumbnails position:relative. My problem is that the items in #thumbnails are scriptaculous draggables that drag outside of thumbnails with a ghost of the element that is positioned absolutely. This does not go over well if the parent is positioned:relatively because now the absolute positions are relative to #thumbnails and not the <body>. Does anyone know an alternative solution to the IE7 bug?

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