aligning widgets

[Timothy Flechtner <Timothy Flechtner tellabs com>]

hello all,
  my forehead is getting a little bit bloody from banging it against the
  wall, so i thought i'd cry uncle and ask for help.
 
  i'm trying to create a table, and supply it with headers, one per column.
  for the life of me, i can't figure out how to 
  get the header width and the column width to match.  created an hbox and
  packed a bunch for frames containing labels
  in to it for the headers, then created a scrolled window, in which i put
my
  table.  when i try to take the width of each frame in
  the headers box, it invariably comes back as 1, which leads me to believe
  it hasn't been set yet.  i was hoping to use that
  to set the width of each cell in the table in the same column as that
  header.

  i tried asking a similar question on this list earlier this evening, but
  received a message saying i wasn't a member yet (i joined 
  shortly before that), so i'm sending this now hoping the filter will see
  that i'm now a member.  sorry if the earlier messages actually
  get through.

  anyway, if anyone could suggest a method whereby i can align headers and
  fields under them (using any widgets what so ever!),
  i would be very greatfull.

  thanks!!!
  -tim