CSS: Background invades content when zoom in (IE9) - css

I'm trying to figure out the reason for a weird behaviour in the browser.
The thing is when you start zooming in the webpage, suddenly the background comes in and invade all the content.
I've been walking around this but without results.
Of course the problem is only using IE. It works as expected on the rest of browsers.
Here's an screenshot of the problem and the css code as well.

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The problem was my original png was
1×1, and for whatever reason IE8 was
not liking trying to tile that and
handle the alpha transparency at the
same time. When I accidentally saved
that image with a much larger copy I
had on my clipboard, 100×100, it ended
up fixing whatever problem Internet
Explorer was having with processing
the png’s transparency.
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