Adaptive Layouts questions

I did a little work with the layouts when 6.5 came out but am starting afresh with the 10.3 layouts since they seem to have been cleaned up. I have a few quick questions!
1)
The first layout I'm looking at is the Base Page Layout and right off the bat I'm trying to figure out what the basepagelayout-navarea.html file is, and why there isn't a layout web service created for it out of the box. Any ideas?
I created a webservice for it and plugged it in and the layout seems to remove all adaptive styling from community pages, but the KD and search layouts fall apart. I went through the documentation but couldn't find anything related to this layout. Any suggestions?
2)
I've noticed that the basepagelayout causes an issue when you visit the "My Account" section. Basically it forces the footer to display to the right of the rest of the portal window. This only happens in IE8.
One way to correct this issue would be to remove the 'align="left"' entry in the table of the "My Account" section by creating a new "My Account Layout". But it seems odd that this fails right out of the box, so I'm wondering if there is another workaround or reason this is happening?
This is a snippet of the code that duplicates the issue in case anyone has a suggestion, or is bored/curious:)
<table align="left" width="100%" bgcolor="green">
<tr>
<td>
My Account
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="red">
Weird Alignment
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Thanks
Geoff

You can get rid of this issue by adding an extra DIV element arount the pt:basepage.content tag in the BasePAgeLayout.html
<div style="float:left;width:100%;">
<pt:basepage.content/>
</div>
Regards
Santosh
Edited by: user10406069 on Oct 5, 2010 10:38 AM

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