Table columns?

Hi all, I’m new to the forum and was hoping I could get some quick help, since I am not a web publishing expert.

I’ve got a basic table set up with multiple rows but different column widths (i.e. 2 columns in one row, 3 columns in another row, both rows with different column widths). Basically I want each row to span the entire table width. However, it comes out fairly mutated instead :: 1st row becomes 2 filled and 1 empty column, 2nd row becomes 3 columns that are unequally spaced.

[B]In one row, [/B]

<table width=”100%” border=”2″ bordercolor=BLACK cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”10″>

<tr valign=”top”><td width=”50%” align=”center”>
SOME BODY TEXT HERE</p></td>
<td width=”50%” align=”center” bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”>
SOME BODY TEXT HERE</p></td>
</tr>

[B]Closely following that row, another row with::[/B]

<tr valign=”top”>
<td width=”33.3%”>SOME BODY TEXT HERE</td>
<td width=”33.3%”>SOME BODY TEXT HERE</td>
<td width=”33.3%”>SOME BODY TEXT HERE</td>
</tr>

</table>

[B]What’s wrong here?
PS This is for an HTML e-mail marketing campaign, so I do not believe CSS is an option[/B]

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