Good tools for creating tables, including CSS setup, recommendations?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Chris G wrote:
> Word processors do the job moderately well but, as I discovered,
> they're not very good at writing the output in HTML.  If it was easy
> and fairly transparent to display word processor documents on a web
> page that would be my answer.

Sorry just jumping in here, but since you said that about word 
processors, you already tested openoffice's translation of HTML/ODT? I 
didn't see what tools you've already tried and/or why they aren't 
displaying properly or working right for display in a web browser.