"Permission denied" with Internet Explorer and jQuery

From the post on jquerys forum here, you have to have the content type meta as the first item in your head tag.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de"> 
    <head> 
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="/ietest/jquery.js"></script> 
        <script type="text/javascript" src="/ietest/test.js"></script>  
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <a href="#">Test</a>
    </body> 
</html>