Table based site has unwanted horizontal scroll bars in ie

[55nicko55]

Hi! I have just finished building my first site (theloyalfew.com). I used dw and the site is table-based with CSS. I work on a mac, and when i test it in firefox and safari it looks fine, but on Internet Explorer (specifically ie6), the pages automatically go too wide for the page and cause horizontal scroll bars to appear. Refreshing the page gets rid of these bars, and resizes the page correctly - but how do I ensure that the page opens correctly in the first place?

I have heard that using tables is far from ideal, but I assume there is a way to make it work correctly. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks