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Damn IE - honoring "empty-cells: show" isn't that hard, is it? *sigh*

Willing to take suggestions on this. Both solutions I can think of are icky:
1. using "python:blah.plain() or default" and setting the table cell to   by default
2. have the plain() templating functions return ' ' in place of '' (could massively screw up formatting and expressions in other ways

Euww.