title: IE8 parseFloat problem
body: <p>in IE8 i get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre>Webpage error details
  
  User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C)
  Timestamp: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:36:39 UTC
  
  
  Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
  Line: 102
  Char: 4
  Code: 0
  URI: http://www.geoffmeierhans.com/js/jquery/appone.js</pre>
  
  <p>The line it is referring to has the following code on it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var distance = parseFloat($('#distance').val());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Anyone know why this might be happening?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>