Tables in your layout? 0
Are you serious??? It can’t be. Oh wait, you must not be a serious designer. You do work from your bedroom, right? Let me guess, you use Windows, too…
I’ve heard them all. For many reasons, most are valid, tables have been stricken with the scarlet letter when they are used for layout within a web page. For the most part I would agree that designers need to move past tables and focus more making our layouts portable to other platforms (pronounced iPhone). Tables are terrible for this, as they do not allow us to move content around with different stylesheets and they do not semantically describe their content.
But, but, but, sometimes CSS layouts make for a more crowded content markup (less semantic) and simply just don’t get the job done, cross browser.
A recent article by Olav Junker Kjær illustrates a few of the more difficult table traits to emulate with CSS. If you’re a designer, this is a good post to read, even if you would never be one of those designers that used a *gasp* table.
By the way, I do use a Mac, but I run Vista on it, by choice. And, I use tables when appropriate. If you get me a scarlet letter t-shirt, make it a size large. 
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