Espresso is being made...
Ok, I copied the code into a document and it does display properly in Safari but is a bit of a mess in my editor (Adobe Golive 9) so I guess this is another sign that it is time to upgrade to the new version of Adobe Dreamweaver.
A week or so ago I spent a day trying to do a tableless gallery layout that looked like my usual design but was never able to get it to display properly in my usual three browsers but I do have a little better understanding of things like float.
Not wanting to be left behind in the evolution of html coding I ordered
Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition and it just arrived yesterday.