some images not viewing in IE7

Yes, it looks like it's something particular to the machine you are using.  I see no differences between Firefox 2.0.0.2 and IE7 on an XP Pro machine.

You might try shortening the name of the image, perhaps your IE7 can't grab it.
Have you also cleared the cache on that particular browser?

Sorry, didn't notice your Notes there regarding the About Us page.  You are correct the image doesn't load fully in IE7.

So my line of thought needs to get rethunk.

Perhaps your Hspace does not need to be there?

no hspaces or what not.
below is my html and css

<div id="banner"><h2><img src="images/pplclogo.jpg" alt="Personal and Professional Life Coaching" width="250" height="135" /><img name="corporate" src="images/corporate.gif" width="159" height="135" border="0" id="corporate" alt="Personal and Professional Life Coaching" /><img src="images/banner.gif" alt="Personal and Professional Life Coaching" width="303" height="135" /></h2>
</div>

#banner {
      background-repeat: no-repeat;
      height: 140px;
      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      border: 1px solid #cecece;
      padding: 5px;
      background-position: center right;
      background-color: #037E9D;
}

Sorry, I meant here.
<h3>About Me </h3>
  <p><img src="images/Lou.jpg" alt="Lou Cator Life Coach photo" width="146" height="184" hspace="5" style="float:left" /><em>&quot;I am a coach because I am passionate about helping people get what they most want in their life.&quot; </em> </p>

That is the image that doesn't show up in myIE7 on the About Us page.  I can see the pplclogo.jpg on IE7.

Try getting rid of that space at the end of the above line of code between the </em> and the </p>

I don't think deleting the space will fix it.  Maybe it is that hspace.

let me do some code evaluation and I'll get back to you.
Thank you

ok, I made the header banner one big image, and I took off the float on the about us page page image. is there a work around for the float image for IE 7?

Does this help?
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/floatIndent.html

IE 7 dont render the full image when it's in Quirk mode and there is <em> tag to wrap text around the image so it stop displaying at this point to solution is to get ride of <em></em>