Thanks to all for the replies, really helpful and encouraging!
It is going to be a huge task, but we wanted to review our content structure anyway. I'm expecting it all to take at least 6 months - we've got about 4500 pages! - but the long term benefits in terms of maintenance should make it worthwhile. Luckily we've just moved to Dreamweaver MX which makes basic conversion to XHTML much less painful (especially closing all those tags!)
I've played around with some different box layouts and have finally got one that should present the content in a sensible order even in older browsers, even though it won't look very 'styled' - so now its a case of lots of testing before attempting anything on the main site. I just need to be happy that every user will get the same content, and that the layout won't be pixel-perfect in every browser is something that comes with web design as opposed to printed media!
Anyway thanks again, I'll let you know how we get on!
Michelle
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