My views:

1. CSS - go for it. NetScrape 6 is not quite as broken as NutScape 4, but the main table still has no border, and there are different font faces and sizes on the "news" page between IE5.5 and NS6. I personally prefer the smaller, serif (Times New Roman?) that I see with NS 6 than the larger sans-serif font IE5.5 used.

   As well, using the closing paragraph </p> is good practice - XML will eventually force such things.

2. Cookies - give a reason why not, people. If you don't like them, turn them off. You then lose the ability to have your preferances saved. Tough.

My only other comment on the pages is could you give a thought on the news page to having dates in the format "27 Jan 2001" rather than "01/27/2001"? I know it is only us non-americans that are radical and prefer to see the day before the month, but spelling out the month name means it is obvious. Then you will just have the non-english speakers complaining about the use of the english abbreviations. Sigh. Maybe use the same date format as the date / time stamps on the main page ("2001-01-29")