Truly fixed the IE8 gradient problem; fixed a broken spec
(cherry picked from commit 5dac3a700870cb0a3bd779988e4714fcec591599)
Fixed bugs with content partner index page; exemplar images not resetting cache; HE page switching not working; recover account italics
(cherry picked from commit 61d12be91e40061da7c5256f4dfe2ad96854ef10)