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I got into this debate a while ago on here and ended up quiting in frustration thanks to alienq's impossible logic on why tables where better then CSS.
Long story short, use tables for tabular data folks, use css and structural markup for your layout / implementations. Utilizing proper markup and css saves you bandwidth, helps with seo, and at the end of the day saves / makes you money.
Don't listen to hack designers / coders that tell you it's too flaky / incompatible. They are dinosaurs that don't want to adapt or learn something new. I was pretty comfortable w/ tables there for a while as was anyone that wrote any serious html during that time period, but the time has come and support is wide enough where everyone should be adopting or have a plan to start adopting web standards right now.
Many serious developers / designers, myself included know from first hand experience that it is completely possible to create just about any layout using proper markup and css and is actually easier to create / maintain these sites (unlike what the table zealots preach). We utilize these things on a daily basis to create clean, fast loading, semantically correct and accessible pages and i personally maintain atleast 20 sites that would be a complete nightmare to work with if they weren't coded properly using structural markup and well formed css.
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