Raphael text () in IE8

Trying to get Raphael JS to work with IE8.

I am using the text () function to draw some text, which works fine in FF3 and Chrome, but not IE8 (neither compatible nor regular IE8).

Other drawing materials work well in IE8, so I'm guessing I'm missing some silly little details on how to render text in Raphael.

Oh, and this is their latest version of the 0.8.6 library.

Any ideas highly appreciated.