Guest message not valid?

[cyberphr]

I've finished most of my next public release theme, but according to W3's XHTML Validator, the guest welcome message isn't valid!

The supposed error:

Line 1213, column 7: end tag for "table" which is not finished .

That table tag being the final tag seen below.

I'm beginning to think it's wrong... Does anyone see a problem with this?

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>

<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="5">Welcome to the Cyber-Phreaks Forums.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="5">
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</td>
</tr>

</thead>
</table>

[CyberAlien]

Remove <thead> and </thead>. Validator doesn't like when you have <thead>, not don't have <tbody> and <tfoot> in a table.

[cyberphr]

Originally Posted by CyberAlien

Remove <thead> and </thead>. Validator doesn't like when you have <thead>, not don't have <tbody> and <tfoot> in a table.

Thanks, that worked. I don't usually use those tags, other than in vBulletin.