HTML is notoriously hard to convert wholesale without knowing the structure of the pages. The optional closing tags alone can be great source of fun. Stripping things that can be set on the BODY styling is not too hard, but anything deeper in can be painful.
(But overall, the work is worth it. I have never regretted converting a table based layout to CSS.)
(But overall, the work is worth it. I have never regretted converting a table based layout to CSS.)