2 problems (small footer issue, and major box alignment issue)

[Ninjakreborn]

So far I have only coded the basic layout, I still have to put in box structure and everything else.
But I coded most of it, then he changed his mind on something, I can't get it in
www.thevirtualgolfsociety.com is the live site I am coding at.

The attached image is the layout I want to recieve.

2 issues I see, that I can't figure out

1. THe footer, the left navigation, there is a little whitespace in between those, and I can't get it to go away

2. The box, I needed to add in was a box for advertisements, so I increased the size of the layout itself (like he said), and tried to fix in an ad box just on the side, against the wall, now I am in a situation, where it won't get up there no matter what technique I tried to use

Any advice on these 2 problems would help.

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[Ninjakreborn]

Still having some issues here, any advice would be appreciated, if someone had the time.

[Ninjakreborn]

Grr, major problems here.
Tried everything, can't get it to a four column (4th below header)
It is making the ads box go all over the place,
The footer is off, and It's evne worse in ie
any advice on how to clean "some" of this up, or atleast point me in the right direction.
Maybe I hsould try to recode it again, see if I can try a different approach, any advice

[Ninjakreborn]

This specific problem was solved, I got the thing aligned right, just have to do some cleanup.  If anything come's up I will make another post later, thanks.