Take a close look at what the url is when you click there. Right click it and do "Copy link/shortcut location". Compare the results from Firefox and IE. Try going directly to that url with the address bar of each browser.

They both point to the same url reference, which would be my domain name..

What is weird is the error response in IE..
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Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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But I do not get this in firefox, it will just redirect me to the page, so maybe its some BS IE setting I cannot find that's doing it

Let me try another machine I guess and see what happens on that