Line 702: return getDivDims(0, clone).h;

Passing 0 seems to cause a problem when running template layout in IE8. That 0 eventually gets down into jQuery 1.4.2 which blows up with:

Object doesn't support this property or method jquery.js, line 4709 character 4

I replaced the 0 with {} (i.e. an empty object) which fixes things. However I'm not sure what the intent of passing 0 for given_css is!

I had the same issue with v1.1.5 of this plugin.

My solution was to change to jQuery 1.3.2

This has been fixed in V1.1.6. Sorry for the delay!