Google Analytics is crashing IE8

Hey everyone,

I'm using Atahualpa 3.4.5 and have noticed a strange problem. Everything about it is just perfect, of course, but it comes as no surprise that IE8 has one problem with it. Firefox, Chrome, Safari...all render it perfectly.

I can add the Goggle Analytics code, 3 different ways, but I always get an error just with IE8. I can add it via:
1. ATO --> Add HTML/CSS Inserts --> HTML Inserts: Body Bottom
2. Go straight to footer.php and paste the javascript there (right below or above the bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_bottom'] call.
3. Using the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin.

All 3 of them raise the same problem. Just with IE8, I get the following error, and a totally blank page.

"Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)"

Any ideas?