This is slightly out of my league, but what do you think about these:
http://oli.jp/2011/css3-flexbox/
http://mattwilcox.net/archive/entry/id/1031/
Constructive reaction to Wilcox's article: http://blogs.eforceglobal.com/dkaris...07/16/536.aspx
Tab Atkins is doing some nice things to save the ass of CSS3 layouts it seems: http://www.xanthir.com/blog/
Tried out the Template Layout Module, too, and it's pretty nice once you get the hang of it (used to do ascii art so maybe it's easier for me): http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.php?pid=46