I am completely new to Google Maps and am just creating my first map so that I can incorporate it into my website.
I am trying to limit the area that the user can m
You have your strictBounds mixed up - change the order of them and it should work fine.
A LatLngBounds should be SW corner first, NE corner second:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#LatLngBounds
var strictBounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds(
new google.maps.LatLng(49.90878, -7.69042),
new google.maps.LatLng(60.88770, -0.83496)
);