[Lynne]

You can't put if conditions around whole columns. Looking at your image, you NEED to account for four columns per row. Some will have colspans and some will have rowspans. Here is your basic structure (I think... I through this together kinda quick):

<table>
<tr>
    <td colspan=2>stuff</td>
    <td colspan=2>stuff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td rowspan=2>stuff</td>
    <td>stuff</td>
    <td>stuff</td>
    <td rowspan=2>stuff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan=2>stuff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan=2>stuff</td>
    <td colspan=2>stuff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan=4>stuff</td>
</tr>
</table>