After adding several grey hairs wherever I could squeeze them in, I decided that at this point the best background is no background at all!
Dreamweaver templates are wonderful, useful, time-saving time bombs waiting to blow up...but we had a little talk and I think I got that figured out.
Drops now have borders, and contrast to what's behind them.
IE used to render tables so nicely, it was NS I used to worry about. Seems the shoe is now on the other foot. My tables got a bit wild in IE, but held in NS. Go figure. But, got that pretty much okay. Thanks again for all the great feedback!
