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Let's not insult his intelligence. Sorry if I insulted anyone's intelligence. The plain fact is that the majority of people surfing these days are doing so using browers that support both frames and tables, and they don't give two hoots about whether your site uses one or the other or both. Anyone who is using a browser that supports tables and a connection that can download images quickly can also support frames. The alternative visitor, someone cruising with a text-only browser or with images turned off, isn't going to like your tables version anyway.