I've gone and created (I believe?) my most rock-solid 3-Column, fluid, equalizing layout to date.
Paul, over at SitePoint hasn't confirmed whether this latest attempt is sound, but I'm pretty confident that it is, even though I've not been able to test it in Google's Chrome, not IE8. Perhaps someone here can?
I did once have Chrome, but it screwed up with my not being able to shut down my Window's client OS properly, so I got rid of it. Maybe, I'll go for it again?
Anyway, I've also found this really great 'expression' min / max-width script, which has allowed me to give back some fluidity to IE6. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to give it an equalizing look, though.
Full_Stretch (09)
http:// www. macrankin .co.uk/ layouts/ full_stretch .html (please remove spaces)
I'm hoping that someone will want to give it a try in an actual working design, instead of say, using tables, ones which rely on css, that is.