OK. There are few things I would suggest that might help you out here.
You probably had non-breaking spaces in the empty td's but they don't show up on this forum. If you haven't put them in, it's a good idea - a 1x1 transparent gif is even better. (Just so they show up in the code on this forum, I've put a space in => & nbsp; ... if you cut and paste this code, remember to take them back out again).
Often, when laying out tables, don't leave any spaces between tags ... see how I've laid out the td that contains the image map. I don't break onto the next line. (It breaks below but that's just word-wrap on the forum).
It's just one of those glitches that aren't supposed to happen, but do. Most of the time, HTML ignores these spaces but sometimes it doesn't.
Hope that works!
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<table width="800" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>& nbsp;</td>
<td width="260"><img src="images/Graphic1.jpg" width="260" height="130"></td>
<td width="1">& nbsp;</td>
<td width="300" align="right"><img src="images/attractions.gif" width="300" height="130" border="0" usemap="#Map"><map name="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="1,2,302,138" href="#"></map></td>
<td width="100">& nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>& nbsp;</td>
<td>& nbsp;</td>
<td>& nbsp;</td>
<td width="297" class="topmenulinks"><a href="javascriptopUpWindow('popups/events.htm','0','0','304','410');" title="events">Events</a></td>
<td>& nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
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Cheers,
pnaj.