Avoiding problems with & nbsp ; in a table using CSS.

I'm currently using a table for layout. Yes, I know that this is bad, and should never be done. I'm still transitional, working my way to strict, I plan to go back and fix it later.

The problem is that I'm trying to make my page at least somewhat accessible, including the ability to re-size text. I didn't put

&nbsp

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into some of the cells, as they looked fine without it in firefox, and in IE when loaded, but I've been informed that this causes problems for netscape and operator users.

If I put the

 

Code (markup):

code in, however, if someone resizes the text, this will break the size of the TD elements, and warp the page. Can anyone suggest a CSS style that I could use to prevent these display issues? Thanks.

 

Ignore it, if you are very very unlucky, you'll get 1% netscape and operator users. Either way, the new Netscape is based on FF as well.