Validation ok, but still there is a problem!!!

Hi! I just validated my home page (see link at bottom of page).
I Then added the little code proposed to get the nice little
"validated" logo  : ) (That's cool!)
But this little bit of source code dosn't work when I look at
the page with internet explorer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : (
The problem is that the image file is accessed via
src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html40",
and I think internet explorer may require .gif or so extensions...(Just
an hypothesis) : )
What is going on then?
Everything is fine when I use netscape, but having validated my page,
I thought this was quite a guarantee to make every browser succesfull at
reading it...

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Olivier Powell
Departement d'informatique
Universite de Geneve
Telephone: +41 (0) 22 705 76 20
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~powell
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