Large bold(er) text in IE - css

I'm working on a tag-could style menu on a website: http://web12.leankursus.dk/
It works in chrome, (currently) has some minor problems in firefox and some larger problems in IE (9). The main problems seems to be that IE doesn't make the font as bold as Firefox and Chrome. The font need to look like it does in FF or Chrome, but I am unsure what you do when the browser just displays it diffrently
Hope you can help me.
EDIT: Screenshot of the page in IE9 and Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/1fgwX.jpg
EDIT2: Ah! I've realized I was running IE9 in compatibility mode. Turning that off fixes it in IE9. However - is there any way to make the font work in at least IE8 ?

IE8 and lower don't support .ttf files for the #font-face clause. Use .eot files for IE.
There are some problems with getting it to work in different browsers simultaneously though. Read, for instance, this.
http://readableweb.com/mo-bulletproofer-font-face-css-syntax/

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