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Someone might find these useful.

Reasons
A better way to build your website
Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered
Ten ways to speed up the download time of your web pages
Nested Tables: About the (ab)use of tables as layout tools in webpages.
Why Tables Are Bad (For Layout) Compared to Semantic HTML + CSS
Why go table free?
Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important
Throwing Tables Out the Window

Methods
BonRouge's layouts
pmob.co.uk layouts
The Noodle Incident: CSS Boxes
glish.com - CSS Layout technique
bluerobot.com - Layout Reservoir
Alistapart - In Search of the Holy Grail
Alistapart - Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins
Alistapart - Faux Columns

Books
Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition) by Jeffrey Zeldman
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm
Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS by Dan Cederholm
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd, Simon Collison and cameron Moll

Pete. :)