Make text that's low in the HTML appear high in the page

I'm looking for an HTML trick to put paragraph C at the top of the
page, despite the fact that paragraph C comes after paragraph B within
the HTML. 

That's because I want search engines to see paragraph B first. I know
Google & others will rate text based in part on height within the page,
and I figure that "height" must be based upon height within HTML.
(Google bot has no eyes!) I could be wrong, but humor me unless you
know for sure otherwise.

No, I don't have an example url, b/c this page doesn't exist yet!  :-)

Anyway, I've come up with a different cool HTML trick (table tricks,
really*) to make things appear higher to the eye than they were in
HTML. However, I don't have a solution to this particular problem. I
could write out paragraph C with JavaScript, position it with CSS, or
include it as a SSI, and I think both of those would be ignored by
search engines (making paragraph B more prominent). However, I don't
want to use JS for this trick, and don't have SSI (boo!). Sorry. I may
entertain CSS-P, but I think I want it to work in version 4 browsers.

So the page I want is something like:

Page Title
Menu Bar

Paragraph C
Paragraph B


While the HTML would look like:

Page Title
Menu Bar
Paragraph B
Paragraph C
 

TIA!
c

* p.s. If you look at my company's page (http://www.scanalytics.com/),
you'll see that the vertical navigation table looks like it's parallel
with the body of text. However, it's at the very bottom of the HTML.

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