IE5 Mac Browser Scroll Bar Bug, layers (div tag) vs. tables, fonts

On the site I've asked to have looked at, www.santarosaplateau.org, I've ran 
into what I would consider a bug with IE5 for Mac. The div tags that contain 
the menu and the text can are running at times to a 1000+ pixels and when I 
ran the site on IE5 on Mac in the past, IE5 would not draw the screen 
completely causing the browser window scrollbars not to show, so had to 
resize the window to get the scrollbars back. What I did to fix this was to 
add a blank div tag to the bottom of the page and that worked. Has anybody 
else ran across this problem?

Layers (div tag) vs. Tables

On this site, www.santarosaplateau.org, is the first time I've really started 
developing a site using div tags and ccs to place elements and have found 
that IE and NS on Windows and Mac don't always handle the placement exactly, 
so have had to some tweaking to get things to work. I know in the HTML 4.01 
spec (if I recall correctly) that tables are really not to be used for 
formatting and that div tags, ccs, should be used for formatting but with 
some of the problems we (myself and Stacy) we're thinking about having 
Dreamweaver converting layers into a table but I really don't what to do that 
because I know tables can cause problems also. Pro and Cons on this subject? 
I'm really want to design sites from now on to the standard if its possible.

Font's

Anybody know what's happening with font technology for the web so you can use 
fonts that people don't have on there system? I've played around a little bit 
with Bitstreams web font technology, but unfortunately its doesn't always 
work well on all the browsers. I know at one time Adobe, Apple and others we 
working on stuff but haven't heard anything recent, anyone know what's up?

Thanks,

Scott

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