I recently implemented a javascript animated menu into a site I built and ran into this problem of negative margins not rendering in IE6 when cross browser testing…So to make a long story short I found this workaround which did the trick!

Style the element with position: relative and give it negative offsets instead of negative margins.

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position: relative;
left: -20px;

This will have the same effect as negative margins. Hope it works for you!