Rotate text in IE8+ table Options

[Zwired1]

I need to rotate certain cells in an all-text table by 90 degrees in IE8+ only. Stacked non-rotated characters or images won't work for my application. I am sort of able to do what I need using a BasicImage filter but the cell ends up square, as if the width is set by the unrotated text and then the height is set by the rotated text. I need to set the height and width of the cell independently. Here's my code:

<table border="3" WIDTH="300">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>
<div STYLE= "height:1; background: gray; filter:
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3);">
Header number 1. </div>

</td>
<td>
<div STYLE= "filter:
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3); height:1; background: gray;">
Header 2. </div>

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td >text</td>
<td >text</td>
<td >text</td>
</tr>
</table>