[mortenjorck]

There's nothing wrong at all with using tables when your content is tabular data. The problem is mostly an historical one, dating to before the widespread adoption of CSS: Tables were once the only reliable way to get any sort of layout structure on a page, and so were hacked to accommodate all sorts of layouts through clever use of colspans and rowspans. This was terribly inefficient, but before we had positionable divs, they were the only game in town.