jQuery: .load() issues opening popup window

[rklockner]

I'm fairly new when it comes to jQuery, but I am learing quickly; however, I am stuck...

 

I have a function that when an <a> tag of a particular class is clicked, it adds a div layer that fades out the background, then adds a div on top of the fade as a popup box.  This works great in most of the site, however, there is a section of the site that has a lot of the same data (and there is a lot of it) being loaded on every page.  Instead of loading the data on every page, I decided to use $('#lead_content').load() to load the necessary data on the page. 

 

Everything works fine in IE8.

 

However, in IE7, if I use the popup box in the initial page it works fine but, the portion that loads through the .load() cannot create the box that pops up.

 

I'm sure it has to do with limitations of .load(), but I am hoping that someone might have a workaround.