thanks Kuroi,

ok my html and css is validated, no errors, i still am working on the warnings though, trying to figure them out.

I still not sure how to set the font in the css, but is this what you mean

eg this was before

#productAttributes {
float: left;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px dashed #aaa;
border-bottom: 1px dashed #aaa;
padding: 5px;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;

i now have deleted this line
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;

do i need to do this throughout the stylesheet and also do i need to change float: left: or delete it?

I dont have explorer 7.0 to test it but it looks ok in netscape, firefox and explorer 6.0

I noticed in 6.0 though that the page is wider than it is set to, about a 1 inch blank gap to the right of the right sideboxes, i dont think it was like that before

anyway am i doing this correctly