font spacing problems

Hi.

We have columns all set up, nice and straight with header names over each.
This is when the ie-5 browser is set on 'smaller' text.   When we go to larger,
the column names stretch out to the right; way off their column alignment.  

The columns are done with courier to make them stay straight, and the names were
made arial for appearance...  Fixed and proportional probably don't mix well but
I've also tried a fixed font for the names and it doesn't help.

Can someone tell me the usual method for overcoming this problem?  How to keep
things aligned when using various browser text sizes.   

Btw; there are <pre> tags around all of this.  
  
Thanks for any suggestions.

Floyd


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