IE Scrollbar missing because of Filters

I’ve identified my issue, but I’m unclear how to fix it. I was using a filter in the css for a background gradient, but that removed the scrollbar from the entire site in IE. I need to bring back the scrollbar and if a gradient background is not possible then I need to just have a solid background color.

Here is the css body filter that broke the scrollbar in IE8:
-ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(GradientType=0,startColorstr=’#3A5E8C’, endColorstr=’#FFFFFF’)”; /* IE8 */

I’ve tried adding the code below into my header.php

<!–[if IE]>
<style type=”text/css”>
{background-color:#e6e6e6}
</style>
<![endif]–>

This does nothing.

I’ve also tried various additions to the css such as changing the html height and body height to 101% that adds a scroll bar, but won’t let me scoll down to view the whole page. I’ve also tried adding various versions of -ms-overflow-y : scroll; into the css.