Quick newbie question

[Matt Norton]

Hello everyone.

I've just upgraded to v. 1.1.6, and am now getting a sort of strange error. 
I'm working on a simple text file with a table, and when I try
View-->Postscript, or PDF, I get the following error:

!Latex Error: Something's wrong -- perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual .....

I.116 \end
            {tabular}\par}
Try typing <return> to proceed.

etc., etc.  Now, I don't know a whole hell of a lot about LaTeX, but it strikes
me as strange that this error pops up in the middle of a paragraph of text, and
not next to a table.  Even weirder, I could export the file as latex, and then
run latex, and subsequently dvi and dvipdf.

Is this something intrinsic to 1.1.6?  Have I made a rookie mistake?  Have I
totally misunderstood (wouldn't be the first time).

Matt