Bingo!
SDF: the 'align="left"' attribute in the TABLE tag seems to be the culprit. That attribute doesn't normally apply to the TABLE tag--it's meant for TD--so I suspect that it confused the browser into interpreting it as a positioning or flow-around directive rather than a text-alignment control.
In general, most of the attributes that originally controlled the appearance of things in HTML have been superseded by CSS (stylesheet) directives, and they're officially "deprecated". A better way to specify left text-alignment would be an inline style attribute: style="text-align:left". Left-align is the default, though, so you usually only need it to countermand an inherited alignment that's something else.