Simple (in theory) Layout Problem

Okay, I thought this'd be easy but it's turned out to be another pain.

I'm trying to create a classic fixed-width navigation, dynamic-width content design that'll have a max-width of 1000px. When the viewport is less than 1000 pixels wide, the content block should dynamically get smaller, filling 100% of the page width with the "columns" remaining side-by-side.

The problem is that when I shrink the content div below the max-width (by resizing the window), that div, without an assigned width, is somehow too wide and gets wrapped to the next line, below the menu div. I at least got it to stay on the same line when the viewport is greater than 1000px wide so that the width of the content block is capped through a second max-width. I've done this kind of layout before but not with a dynamic width and I don't know how to fix this without giving it a width which defeats the point... Maybe I'm going about it wrong. Any ideas?

HTML: http://www.angelfire.com/droid/plgaries/personal.html
CSS: http://www.angelfire.com/droid/plgaries/master.css

I got it to work by positioning the #menu absolutely, and then floating the #content to the right and giving it a left-margin of 202px. This might be more of a "work-around" type answer than you were looking for, but I couldn't figure out any other way.

Ah, I tried it out and it does indeed work in Firefox and Opera, but it doesn't work in Internet Explorer. However, this isn't a problem; since Internet Explorer doesn't support max-width anyway, I have that browser running the site in auto (full) width. I just used a conditional comment to revert the new CSS back to its original form which was already working as expected in that browser. It doesn't work in my WYSIWYG editor (GoLive) but hopefully that won't be a problem.

Anyway, thanks! Forgot all about absolute positioning as I always try to avoid the position property due to past headaches, heh.

Lol, if you can beleive it I had the same problem Thank you very much for your help and hope to see you 2 around more.:)