Hello LeeB, and welcome to the forums. There are different causes for what looks like the same behavior in IE 5.5 and Opera 7.54.
First, note that the align attribute is deprecated - and if you are using a full DTD, then Opera will (rightly) ignore any deprecated attributes.
What you are looking for is a rule that aligns the content within the table cell - the <td> element. But your mark-up gives an align attribute to the <img> element instead, rather than to the <td>. Try working with text-align:left for the <td> elements.
Even before it was deprecated, I saw a lot of markup where the author was confused about the align atttribute. When the align attribute is applied to an <img> tag, it FLOATS the image left or right and then wraps the other content around the image. It's not just "push it all the way to the left."
Also note that you have three different elements interacting in this layout: an anchor tag, image tags, and table cells. You'll need to have CSS rules for all those elements to avoid having some browser or other apply default margins and/or padding.
