Originally Posted By: wfaulk
They look that way, but they're not. They're in one big table. The correct solution is to move to DIVs, but, for whatever reason, they haven't done that.

Originally Posted By: UBBThreads 8.0 changelog
We'll be saying goodbye to the table heavy design we have now. We'll still use some tables for tabular data, but we'll be using CSS for the layout. This ia a major change in itself and we'll be validating all pages to be XHTML Transitional compliant as we go along.

Basically 8.0 is a major rewrite. 1-7 have just been mostly incremental updates, so the legacy table stuff has stuck around a while.