I just tried and had no issues using IE9. The following requests were sent succesfully when I clicked the refresh button. I used the F12 Developer Tools within IE to capture the traffic.
Request GET /SLProxy/proxy.ashx?http%3a%2f%2fwebmapping%2fArcGIS%2frest%2fservices%2fPublic_OMS%2fMapServer%2f9%2fquery%3freturnGeometry%3dtrue%26spatialRel%3desriSpatialRelIntersects%26where%3dCUSTOMERCOUNT%2b%253e%2b0%26outSR%3d102100%26outFields%3d*%26f%3djson%26 HTTP/1.1
Response: {"displayFieldName":"ZCTA","fieldAliases":{"CUSTOMERCOUNT":"CUSTOMERCOUNT","ZIP":"ZIP"},"fields":[{"name":"CUSTOMERCOUNT","type":"esriFieldTypeInteger","alias":"CUSTOMERCOUNT"},{"name":"ZIP","type":"esriFieldTypeString","alias":"ZIP","length":5}],"features":[{"attributes":{"CUSTOMERCOUNT":1,"ZIP":"76020"}},{"attributes":{"CUSTOMERCOUNT":488,"ZIP":"76087"}},{"attributes":{"CUSTOMERCOUNT":1,"ZIP":"76248"}},{"attributes":{"CUSTOMERCOUNT":1,"ZIP":"76426"}}]}
Request GET /SLProxy/proxy.ashx?http%3a%2f%2fwebmapping%2fArcGIS%2frest%2fservices%2fPublic_OMS%2fMapServer%2f8%2fquery%3freturnGeometry%3dtrue%26spatialRel%3desriSpatialRelIntersects%26where%3dZIP%2b%253d%2b'76020'%2bor%2bZIP%2b%253d%2b'76087'%2bor%2bZIP%2b%253d%2b'76248'%2bor%2bZIP%2b%253d%2b'76426'%26outSR%3d102100%26outFields%3d*%26f%3djson%26 HTTP/1.1
Response: Too much to post but I did get a valid response.