SOLVED ---
I think I found the problem. I usually use the JCE editor. I started to think that the problem might not be fabrik but something else. It turned out that the problem WAS elsewhere.
I took a look at another menu item that also was an article with an embedded form. That worked fine. However, when I tried to clean up the HTML and save the tours article, I was getting an error of 500 - An error has occurred. Layout edit_row not found. That seemed to indicate that something was corrupted inside the article.
I copied the text, deleted everything from the article and then pasted it in as plain text. NOW THE FORM IS WORKING IN IE 9.
To sum it up, the main problem was not with Fabrik. It was something that was corrupted in the article where the fabrik form was embedded with {fabrik view=form id=23}
Hope this helps if anyone else runs into a similar issue.