Mysterious gaps and widths in Netscape 4

I must be getting rusty: it's been too long since I've built a good old Netscape 4.79 compatible, table-based layout, and I'm having problems getting simple three-column table to display correctly.

Here's the markup (the page is valid HTML 4.01 Transitional) with spacing left as-is:

<center><table width="715" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#254A86"><tr><td colspan="3"><a href="/"><img src="toplogo1.jpg" width="715" height="124" border="0" alt="blablabla"></a></td></tr><tr><td width="162" bgcolor="#254A86" valign="top"><p>LH column</p></td>

<td width="394" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="left" valign="top">

<!-- main content section -->

<h1>title1</h1>
<p>blablabla</p>
<h2>title2</h2>
<p>blablabla</p>

</td>

<td width="159" bgcolor="#254A86" valign="top"><p>RH column</p></td>

</tr><tr><td colspan="3" width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">a search box here</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="3" width="100%"><p class="footer" align="center">&copy; 2004, blablabla</p></td></tr></table></center>

The problems:

1. I get a 1px gap between the table rows, even with the cellspacing and cellpadding set to zero.

2. NN4.79 just won't respect the fixed widths for the columns - it makes the left column too narrow, and the right one too wide.

Does anyone remember the old-style table tricks to make everything hold together? NN4 compatibility is obligatory on this site, as the site owner uses it and can't upgrade.

Mysterious gaps and widths in Netscape 4

Old-skool table layout problems

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