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Best 3 column theme to create my own liquid template?

Hi all,

I'm looking for an starting theme (drupal 4.6.6) to develop my department skin with the following features (by order of importance, if possible):

A) 3 columns Liquid/Elastic 100% width layout.
B) Maximum reusability (no future changes in 4.7)
C) Acomplish all standards (css, xhtml, 508)
D) Don't overlap elements (stops constraining at 800x600, that is shown without horizontal scroll)
E) Tableless
F) Based on phptheme engine
G) Colapsible blocks.

Why?
A), B) and C) are mandatory in my project's requests.
D) and G) are quite personal items... I don't want to show overlaped blocks and content if they resize their broswers and I think is a good usability practice to let the user decide what he/she like to see.
E) is to follow the web dessigner good practices.
F) is to gain flexibility and also thinking that phptheme engine will be included in 4.7 core.

One whole day after installing and playing with themes this, is my sorted list of candidates:

1. phptheme bluemarine: Probably not as deeply tested than the former one but quite accomplish 508, CSS and XHTML tests, runs well on IE and is based on phptheme. The bad point is that is not a tablesless layout and most of the times admin's content width isn't well controlled.

2. "outofthebox" bluemarine: Deeply tested so close to perfect 3column theme that accomplish 508, CSS and XHTML test but don't use phptheme and is based on tables.

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Hi

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Kind Regards

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