David,

> 1. Why do I have a horizontal scrollbar in my browser window (current
> viewport size 814px wide, 607px high)?

Commenting out the "width: 100%;" in the body element worked for me. 
You don't really need it, as you've already set the "reporttitle" div
to "width: 100%", and your "wrapper" div is fixed at 640px.

> 2. When I resize the window horizontally in Firefox 1.0.4, I sometimes
> get a horizontal scrollbar under the left column ... and sometimes not.

I suspect that the widths of the contents in your left column are
hovering awfully close to the hardcoded 200px width on your left
column, and that's triggering the scrollbar.  You should probably make
it wider.

> 3. When I resize the window vertically, my left column navigation drops
> below the bottom of the screen, becoming invisible and unreachable even
> on pages with enough content to provide a vertical scrollbar. Is this
> connected with the fact that I have the header and the left column
> positioned absolutely? What can I do instead?

Your header and left column are positioned with "fixed", not
"absolute", which means that they shouldn't move at all.  (BTW, if you
also use "position: fixed;" on your right column, then your page would
be unable to scroll at all.)

http://westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/properties/page_layout.html#fixed

> 4. Increasing the font size more than a few steps messes things up.
> Would using EMs when sizing the column widths help?

You have your right column's left padding set to 200px.  The moment
the font in your left column gets larger than 200px, the two columns
will overlap.  Using relative units like percentages should help with
that--but you must also change the left padding on the right column to
compensate.

HTH.

Cheers,
--Mimi
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