What you are seeing under IE6 is a correct implementation of how attributes - in this case, alignment of the contents of table cell - are inherited from parent tables. So, if a page is built using nested tables, and the outmost table has its cells centered, then unless child tables explicitly set their cell alignment, they will inherit the centered alignment from their parent.
This is how styles are meant to be implemented under the latest W3C standards. However, there are many browsers that are "broken" to a greater or lesser degree. Netscape 4 browsers are severely broken, IE5 is broken to a lesser degree. From what I understand, IE6 is almost completely compliant to the HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2 standards.
IE6 will be the standard browser version on Win XP. I personally would have thought that moving to a version of a product that supports current standards is a good thing.
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