Pages stops column width, why?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot1.png
This is the first screen shot. I made my first row with 4 columns and sized them exactly how I want them.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot2.png
This next screen shot show you Pages stopping me from extending my column any further to the right, to match it up with my first row. I cannot pull that column border anymore, Pages literally stops the mouse. Why?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot3.png
It gets even weirder. When I make 4 columns on the next row, just out of curiosity, it doesn't even let me extend the column to the same width as the previous row. What you see is the furthest it will allow me to extend the column.
Please help...FYI, there is only one table with multiple rows on this document and you can see that it's doing this on both columns on each side of the document.

There's a screenshot showing I'm really using Pages '09.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot4.png
This screenshot shows the inspector with that particular column highlighted. The column width is grayed out, doesn't show me the width of the column, and doesn't allow me to edit the width of the column. Why?!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot5.png
This screenshot shows the inspector with the next column highlighted. The column width is there, 0.88", and I can edit it if I want.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot6.png
This screenshot shows the inspector with the first column highlighted in the 2nd row. Again, column width is grayed out, doesn't show me the width of the column, and doesn't allow me to edit the width of the column. Why?!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot7.png
This screenshot shows the inspector with the next column highlighted in the 2nd row. Instead of showing the column width like it did on the 1st row, for whatever reason, this time it doesn't show the column width and it's grayed out. Why?!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11608065/ScreenShot8.png
Please tell me that there's a good reason for all this and that I'm doing it wrong.

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