tables... or list items?

HTML Code:

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<table cellpadding="5">
<tr class="blue">
        <td width="17%">Model</td>
    <td width="43%">Processor</td>
    <td width="15%">Hard Disk</td>
    <td width="10%">Memory</td>
    <td width="10%">Price</td>
</tr>
<tr class="white">
        <td class="model">White 13"</td>
    <td class="other">2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo</td>
    <td class="other">250GB</td>
    <td class="other">2GB</td>
    <td class="price">$899</td>
</tr>
<tr class="grey">
        <td class="model">White 13"</td>
    <td class="other">2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo</td>
    <td class="other">250GB</td>
    <td class="other">2GB</td>
    <td class="price">$899</td>
</tr>
</table>

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here's my code. here's where i'm working on it:
http://www.book.uiowa.edu/ePOS/this_...tml&design=335

how can i get ride of those ugly white spaces between each column and row? can this be better accomplished using list items, and how?

Usually I'm against tables for almost everything but this is a proper time to use them. You are showing a table of data so that's okay. To get rid of those ugly white space your table needs the following attribute: cellspacing="0"

thanks! i don't know why i didn't think of that haha