styling list for navigation

What's the current wisdom on styling lists for navigation. What I'd like is for:

links and background colors to be 100% of the width.
multi-line OK (ie links will wrap). Padding OK. Same width in IE as other browsers

I'm finding that IE differs from conforming browsers in the way it calculates width after adding padding (yes, strict doctype.) I have a feeling that things have moved on fro the old ListAPart article on this.

Also, I thought IE6 had no trouble with margin auto on a fixed width (with strict), but I'm having trouble with that and have resorted to the old text-align hack.

Jeff
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