[teknomage1]

I think you uploaded the wrong code. In general, absolute postioning treats the browser window as a pixel addressable canvas and let's you stick things to it. Usually with webpages relative postioning is more helpful, since you can maintain the hierarchy and such. Absolute positioning suffers from the same problems as using pixel values for font sizes. Namely, fonts can become illegible on monitors with denser resolutions.

Also as cool as CSS is, sometimes it's just better to use a table to position local elements, and use CSS to tie together the site as a whole.