penders - 7:49 pm on Jul 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

Ah yes, sorry, misread your post slightly there! That would display just the first TD of each row, filling the row, and hide the others.

The other thought then is to simply display the table-cell's as blocks...
td {display: block;}

While this works OK in Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox, IE8 is again the problem! IE8 displays all cells in a row.