strange table problem

http://zachdexter.com/new.shtml

at the right of the screen, there's the welcome to the barren north through the google ads section. for some reason, which i can't seem to find through the code, there's an extra space above and below the bordered table on the right. i don't know why.

at the bottom of my source code, there's a section i commented out labeled "optional table". that table seems to "lock in" the table on the right, but then i can't make the table on the right smaller - i need to kill the space below the google ad and the space above it's TD. the example with the "optional table" commented out is located here: http://zachdexter.com/new_wtable.shtml

any ideas? sorry if i sound confusing, but this is a little bit difficult to explain.
thanks.

Yep - me too.

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