box width calculations

Another example of box measurement problems.
this time it may be due to levels of nesting.
The overall table is a navigation aid that displys well
in browsers.  However amaya 8.1b strings content into 
single character lines ...  this is on win98 platform!--
john russell ve3ll@rac.ca [those are L's as in LLAMA]
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll
http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains
http://home.cogeco.ca/~cipher

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