1. I think CSS is the way to go for simplifying the templates. It's cleaner, faster and compatible with many browsers. I would be skeptical of tables built with css though, that seems to pose problems with some browsers.

2. The site should look perfect in Explorer 5 and above. I think it should still function in Netscape 4, but it's OK if it looks bad. A surprising number of people still us NS 4 unfortanately...

3. Javascript should only be used for "optional" functionality, like spellcheck. It should not be required for core functions.

5. Yes, I've had trouble installing but I think it's a problem on my end with how we have our server configured. Not much GT could do about that...

Cheers,

Bryan