Problem with slicing and tables for my navigation and contents box. Help!!

I am currently designing a web layout for a friend of mine and currently stuck with the tables part after slicing. I am not sure whether its my slicing, but after cutting up my site in photoshop, I export it into DreamWeaver. I followed exactly what this tutorial has said. It's in 2 parts:

Part 1
http://www.jslane.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=273

Part 2
http://www.jslane.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=274

The thing is that the tutorial shows the slicing for one content box and not for 2 or more.

The problem I am getting is that when I enter text and hit enter several times, the navigation on the side stretches down.

Is there a way to enter text and let the contents box stretch but let the navigation/menu table stay in one size/not stretch down. And is there a way to do the same for the navigation/menu table to stretch down without affecting other tables to stretch or go down the page?

Below are three links to 3 different stages of the site.

This is the photoshop stage after slicing.
http://www3.webng.com/mos3dalbum/photoshop+slices.bmp

This is in Dreamweaver showing the tables after following the tutorial I mentioned above.
http://www3.webng.com/mos3dalbum/dreamweaver+tables.bmp

This is the preview in Dreamweaver showing the streched down contents box after inputting text in the menu on the left side.
http://www3.webng.com/mos3dalbum/streched.bmp

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

One of 2 things :

Either scrap trying to build the site with tables and use a fluid CSS layout.
(suggested)

or

Use a div for the content area. (it will work but it will be kind of clunky and different browsers will display it differently)

Thanx