Slick's host (panicus) seems to have issues with Internet Explorer. Whether or not this is intentional on the part of the host, I don't know. Personally, I find it very annoying.
I uploaded it on geocities for you here:
http://www.geocities.com/disch_/FFHackster.zipedit-
As for the patches... well I'm certainly not going to move all of them to geocities. I'll try and find out what the hell is going on with panicus (if anything) and whether or not this can be fixed.
You're not the first person to have this problem though -- so I seriously doubt it's on your end. The only thing you could try that might fix it would be to pick up Opera or Firefox and use them instead of IE.
edit again-
bah -- well apparently it works fine for me with IE. Who knows!