Magento - Disappearing CheckOut Button

For a while now I have had a phantom problem with the Check Out button disappearing in the final step of the Magento purchase process. This is a huge problem. Over the past six months I have had only two or three people call me with this problem and once I had them hover they saw the button and jumped off the phone like it was on fire. So unable to gather data on the problem, and unable to see it myself on any of the browsers on multiple computers. My concern is how many others may be having the problem that I am not catching and then they just go buy elsewhere.




Today I finally found a fix. Apparently the problem only occurs in Internet Explorer 8, but not consistently. If you are also having this problem on your Magento install the fix I found from Saruqui is:


to add this code:

<block type="core/template" name="checkout.onepage.review.button" as="button" template="checkout/onepage/review/button.phtml"/>

to this page  /app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/checkout.xml

AND the block of code would then look like this:

<!--One page checkout order review block-->

    <checkout_onepage_review>
        <!-- Mage_Checkout -->
        <remove name="right"/>
        <remove name="left"/>

        <block type="checkout/onepage_review_info" name="root" output="toHtml" template="checkout/onepage/review/info.phtml">
            <action method="addItemRender"><type>default</type><block>checkout/cart_item_renderer</block><template>checkout/onepage/review/item.phtml</template></action>
            <action method="addItemRender"><type>grouped</type><block>checkout/cart_item_renderer_grouped</block><template>checkout/onepage/review/item.phtml</template></action>
            <action method="addItemRender"><type>configurable</type><block>checkout/cart_item_renderer_configurable</block><template>checkout/onepage/review/item.phtml</template></action>
            <block type="checkout/cart_totals" name="checkout.onepage.review.info.totals" as="totals" template="checkout/onepage/review/totals.phtml"/>
            <block type="core/text_list" name="checkout.onepage.review.info.items.before" as="items_before"/>
            <block type="core/template" name="checkout.onepage.review.button" as="button" template="checkout/onepage/review/button.phtml"/>
        </block>
    </checkout_onepage_review>

I hope this helps someone else having the same problem :)