CSS positioning within table cells

Maybe I've just been staring at this too long but I'm stumped. I want to position a table (could be a list) within a table by setting the parent element to relative and the position of the child element to absolute. The only problem is that I can't get my table cells to act as parent elements so the smaller table (or list) positions itself relative to the wrapper div which is also set to relative. Do I have to create divs within the table cells? If so it sort of defeats the purpose of the table. How can I do this using appropriate markup?
Hope this makes sense. I think my brain has gone numb.
Here's the page I'm trying to fix:
http://www.kirstencassidy.com/_miniprints2.html
Thanks in advance for your help.

Lon Winters wrote:
What I see is a table with red borders that contain images left justified. What do you want to position - the images? I think you could do all this in CSS without any tables.
I think what the OP is trying to do is position some text to the right of the images?
Obvious answer as the OP has used tables is to insert another 2 column table into each existing table cell, one for the image an one for the text.
Alternative is to use css to float the images left, give the image a right margin and then the text will appear to the right of it in the table cell. Then just style the text with some css?

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