Isaac, thanks for the help. I'm new at CSS and you were a big help. I was able to dig a little further and figured out the intent of the resize function is to force the footer to the bottom of the page when the page (body) height was greater than the sum of all the modules under art-main. It incorrectly increased the height of each of the content modules where I think it should be increasing the height of the sheet. I changed the c variable assignment line to point to the sheet and it works like a charm. Thanks again for the help. I didn't know where to start and your comments made the code easier to understand. Here's what the code looks like now:

jQuery(function ($) {
    'use strict';
    $(window).bind('resize', function () {
        var bh = $('body').height();
        var mh = 0;
    var i = 0;
        //var c = $('div.art-content');
    //SB 7/15/13 adjust sheet height, not each content
    var c = $('div.art-sheet');
        c.removeAttr('style');

        $('#art-main').children().each(function() {
            if ($(this).css('position') !== 'absolute') {
                mh += $(this).outerHeight(true);
            }
        });
        
        if (mh < bh) {
            var r = bh - mh;
        c.css('height', (c.outerHeight(true) + r) + 'px');
        }
    });

    if ($.browser.msie && parseInt($.browser.version, 10) < 8) {
        $(window).bind('resize', function() {
            var c = $('div.art-content');
            var s = c.parent().children('.art-layout-cell:not(.art-content)');
            var w = 0;
            c.hide();
            s.each(function() { w += $(this).outerWidth(true); });
            c.w = c.parent().width(); c.css('width', c.w - w + 'px');
            c.show();
        });
    }

    $(window).trigger('resize');
});

I just came in search of the answer to this question. FYI I checked the demo site and this happens in three of the default skins art42-blue, art42-bluepatch and art42-green.