If you’re not using the Meta Widget from Appearance/Widgets, you could try editing your sidebar template and removing <?php wp_register(); ?> and ?php wp_loginout(); ?>.
The dotted line is a visual indication that RSS is an abbreviation and has been correctly marked up using the <abbr> tag. Older versions of IE (7 or below) simply ignored this markup. As your current theme is forcing IE8 to behave like IE7 (ie compatibility mode), the dotted line isn’t shown in IE8 either.
Thanks. I am using the Meta Widget from Appearance/Widgets. If so, is there a different way of doing this?
Thank you.
Did not see <?php wp_register(); ?> in the sidebar template editor either.
Thanks.