Ninja jquery Simple Modal Dialog Browser Issues

I set up a modal dialog based on the example in Ch. 7 of the book. My dialog wasn’t showing up in IE or Safari (though it works fine in Firefox), so I opened the sample code from the book and it doesn’t work either. I’m guessing it is the CSS, but I haven’t been able to pinpoint the problem.

Here’s the CSS

#overlay {
	display:none;
	top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-left: auto;
	position: fixed;
	width: 100%;
	z-index: 100;
}
#blanket {
	background-color: #000000;	
	top: 0;
	bottom: 0;
	left: 0;
	display: block;
	opacity: 0.8;
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
}
.dialog {
	display: none;
	margin: 100px auto;
	position: relative;
  width: 500px;
  padding: 40px;
  background: white;
  -moz-border-radius: 10px;
}

And here’s my revised js

  $('a.login').click(function() {
    openDialog('#dialog')
    return false;   
  });

  $('#dialog')
  .find('.close')
  .live('click', function() {
  	closeDialog('#dialog');
  })

function openDialog(selector) {
	$(selector)
		.clone()
		.show()
		.appendTo('#overlay')
		.parent()
		.fadeIn('fast');
}
  
function closeDialog(selector) {
$(selector)
	.parents('#overlay')
	.fadeOut('fast', function() {
		$(this)
			.find('#dialog')
			.remove();
	});
}

There are lots of other modal examples out there, but I hoped to fix this rather than try to redo the whole thing.