JSF seems to be messing up with my CSS positioning

[Stephen Osella]

I am getting wierd behavior from what I would expect my layout positioning 
should be, and (as usual) it is different in both IE and Firefox.  Does JSF 
put hidden elements that the browser messes up on?  Is there a preferred way 
to layout pages in JSF?  I have seen facelets and layout tags.  Any 
recommendations?

Thanks!