I reverted to non-css positioning
It's not as satisfying as doing it with pure css but I cheated and added a one row two-col html table to the main page div for this layout. I told myself it didn't make me dirty. I took a bubble bath. I can make nice liquid css layouts, they just seem to break down around the far edges. I should post an example, but it's in cvs and it's not really worth the time. I guess, if it renders nearly (if not completely) identically across the main post 5.5 browsers (which is what I'm targeting), then is it bad to lightly use tables for some layout? Feels like it, but I'm not sure what the practical harm is.