HTML comments in unordered list causing extra space in IE

I'm having a hell of a time with a weird issue in Internet Explorer 6 (haven't tested other versions), and not in other browsers like Opera and Firefox.

I have an unordered list that's set up to be managed by Dreamweaver's repeating regions, which uses comments throughout the list.

I've found that these comments are causing IE to display extra space.  So this test comment at the start of the content within list item 2 is creating a vertical gap between list items 1 and 2!

I've tried running all the tags together with no white-space, and this does not fix the problem.

Does anybody know why this might be happening?

Thanks!

<ul>
  <li><a href="test.html">List Item 1</a></li>
  <li><!--test--><a href="test.html">List Item 2</a></li>
  <li><a href="test.html">List Item 3</a></li>
</ul>

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