CSS over conventional tables

[xxdaggerxx]

In websites that rely heavily on equal width and heigt colums do you think using good old fashion tables are better? Only benefit i see in CSS layouts is thier accurate positioning (and thats only good for absolute positioned objects) and that div's can stretch from end to end. Tables are a million times easier to work with and are less stressful and buggy.I n fact its been 1 week now and i still havent finished a template im doing (thx mainly to bugs and browser problems), which wld have took me one day to finish with tables. Right now im doing a site mix with tables and CSS, but i find myself removing more and more of the CSS code and using simple old tables.
I know this sounds like the ranting of a disgruntle user, but i am relatively expirenced with web sites (back in the day when tables was the in thing) and i want to adobt this new CSS way of doing things, but its just to buggy and difficult to work with... anwayz any thoughts?

[jberry]

After much experimenting I think css is the way to go and think tables can constrict you at times especially if you are constantly anding new things to your page there are a couple good tutorials for css that I have found have help me. I think alsoyou should choose either tables or css it gets to be a headache when you are using both. but here are soime links to the tutorials.

http://www.htmldog.com/
http://mezzoblue.com/