The sinuosity in the tables appears to be a function of the way different browsers handle fonts for pre-formatted text. Both Netscape and Internet Explorer provide a choice of monospaced fonts for Fixed width/Plain Text but while IE appears to honour this choice in pre-formatted text, Netscape (4.75 at least - anyone tried 6.1 yet?) does not. If I have time (unlikely) I will try to find out why, or whether you need a different or additional tag or option to get Netscape to work as desired.

Rod