Still the form is not sending anything. It only empties the fields. Also the IE7/IE8 issue continues to evade me. When I remove base href from head, form and media queries work but everything else, not surprisingly, melts down.
Phew, solved at last. My site_url was set to http://www.example.com while my .htaccess redirected everything to http://example.com. Changing site_url to reflect this corrected everything.
What a confusing monologue of a thread this was Hope it's useful to someone else wrestling with this. Conclusion: Check them settings and .htaccess stuff before panicking.
Glad you got it sorted. Thanks for reporting back.
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