diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3d3ea71b1..948650a72 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2006-10-13 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * css/phpmyadmin.css.php: bug #1517428, some IE 6 versions have
+      problems loading CSS when zlip.output_compression is on,
+      thanks to Juergen Wind
+
 2006-10-12 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * tbl_change.php: bug #1566219, automated timestamp values
 
diff --git a/css/phpmyadmin.css.php b/css/phpmyadmin.css.php
index 372110ebb..61397a785 100644
--- a/css/phpmyadmin.css.php
+++ b/css/phpmyadmin.css.php
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ define('PMA_MINIMUM_COMMON', true);
 require_once './libraries/common.lib.php';
 require_once './libraries/sqlparser.lib.php';
 
+// MSIE 6 (at least some unpatched versions) has problems loading CSS 
+// when zlib_compression is on
+if (PMA_USR_BROWSER_AGENT == 'IE' && PMA_USR_BROWSER_VER == '6'
+ && (ini_get('zlib.output_compression')) ) {
+    ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off');
+}
+
 if ($GLOBALS['text_dir'] === 'ltr') {
     $right = 'right';
     $left = 'left';