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First step: use a valid document type [webmasterworld.com].
Second step: Validate your pages [validator.w3.org]
These two should put your document in Standards Compliance Mode as opposed to Quirks mode. To check, find some background area of the page, right-click and select "Page Info" in FireFox or Properties in IE. Look at the setting for render mode.
These alone will rectify 95% of your cross browser problems. You may have to do some tweaks for IE, ad many tweaks for IE6, but this will get you on the right path.