As I thought, my foray into the infamous box model was a complete disaster. Why? Because looking at it in IE6 gives me one thing, and Netscape, another.
The browser wars are ridiculous.
But I did do one good thing in that I made the table width I'm working with relative versus the fixed width I had before. The only thing fixed now is the boddy padding. 20px from the margin all around, mroe or less.
I guess it depends on the browser.
I really wanted to move the menu type side to the right, but while more than possibly, it would cut into some convenience I have set up with the GM templates. Not worth it.
Well, at least I figured out one way of getting an opaque background. Not too bad, I think.