Grrr my message board "While" loop not working fully? aww

[AbydosGater]

Hi, Im working on sort of a message board system for my website..
I am using the following code to display the messages previously posted.
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<?php
echo "<br />";
$query = "SELECT * FROM sf_tenforward ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 50";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
echo "<div align=\"center\"> ";
while($post = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$member_id = $post['member_id'];
$author = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM sf_users WHERE member_id='$member_id'");
$author = mysql_fetch_array($author);
$arank = $author['rank'];
$aname = $author['username'];
$avatar = $author['avatar'];
$CL = $author['CL'];
$signature = $author['signature'];
$timestamp = $post['timestamp'];
$title = $post['title'];
$content = $post['content'];
$colour = $post['color'];
if ($author['banned'] == 1){
$banned = "<font color=red><i>User Banned</i></font><br>";
}
echo <<<POST
<table width="100%" height="248" border="0" class='table_$colour'>
  <tr>
    <td width="14%" height="187" class='td_$colour'><div align="center">
        <p><font color='white'><img src="images/$avatar" width="100" height="100"><br>
          Rank: $arank<br><br>
          User: $aname<br><br>
          Clearance level: $CL<br><br>
          $banned</p>
    </font></td>
    <td width="86%" class='td_$colour'><font color=white>
<p><b><i>$title</i></b>
<br><br>
              $content</p></font>
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td class='td_$colour'><font color=white>$timestamp</font></td>
    <td class='td_$colour'><font color=white>$signature</font></td>
  </tr>
</table>

POST;
unset($banned);
};
?>

And it seams to have worked for my first post ok..
If you look i made a quick file just containg that code and dbconnection at www.shadowfleet.info/test.php

But for the other two posts its not
1) Displaying the double <br> after the post so the tables arnt on top of each other..
And 2) Its moving the title of the last two posts down ages in the table, it should display it at the top of the table!

Its working for the first post, any ideas why its not working for the rest?
Thanks
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