Netscape just doesn't get it...

Oh HTML gurus...

once again I come to you for enlightenment. The following code is 
driving me NUTS! Just a really simple thing but I can't seem to get 
it to work in Netscape 4 (works slightly better in IE4 and admirably 
in IE6...) It's the old ' 
two-column-table-with-text-in-the-right-column-and-an-image-in-the-left) 
thing and once again, Netscape is arbitrarily making the columns 
whatever width it sees fit (in this case allowing a 400px wide column 
for a 166px wide image)

Have tried various kludges to try to make Netscape see sense, to no avail...

Have I missed anything obvious?

T.I.A.,

MIKE


code follows...
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<td width=550 valign=top>

<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td height=160 valign=bottom colspan=2>
	<img src="bannerimage.JPG" alt="banner" align=top width="550" 
height="114" border="0">
	</td>
</tr>

<tr>
	<td height=40 valign=top colspan=2>
	<h2>title here</h2>
	</td>
</tr>

<tr valign=top>
	<td width=380>
	              <div class="small"><i>yada yada yada blah blah 
blah and so on and so forth because there is a decent amount of text 
in here in fact there is so much that we have to set it small 
otherwise it looks terrible yada yada yada blah blah blah and so on 
and so forth because there is a decent amount of text in here in fact 
there is so much that we have to set it small otherwise it looks 
terrible</i></div>

			      <div 
class="small"><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; a bit of an in dent here and then 
yada yada yada blah blah blah and so on and so forth because there is 
a decent amount of text in here in fact there is so much that we have 
to set it small otherwise it looks terrible yada yada yada blah blah 
blah and so on and so forth because there is a decent amount of text 
in here in fact there is so much that we have to set it small 
otherwise it looks terrible<br>
					&nbsp</i></div>
	</td>


	<td width=170 align=right> <img 
src="images/page_images/owada1.jpg" width="166" height="213"></td>
</tr>
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