There is no spoon....
Seriously, though we've all had trouble getting the tableless layout just right - mainly because of the different ways that user agents render the box model. It can be quite difficult to get boxes to sit snugly against each other especially with multi-column layouts. When is a box not a box? When it's being rendered by IE. Ben B's presentation at the meeting before last about how IE renders the box model is worth taking a look at again (I think it's in a Russorial somewhere).
Aside from getting the layout just right, I've found the big benefit of moving away from tableless layouts is the "div" layout's extensibility and "objectabiliity". Basically a TD cell can't exist outside of a <table> whereas a div can exist of it's own accord or as a descendant of any other number of objects and can be positioned anywhere on the page.
The example I can give are my reseller sites.. I can do one stylesheet per site that presents the single codebase (used by all) to match the parent reseller site - using floats, positioning, display etc and other guff. It makes good business sense as well as I can whip out a new site in about a day.
Cheers James
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