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Even though it's obvious using a visual browser that this is the main content, text-only browsers like Lynx will display the navigation bar first, because this page uses tables for layout, and the navigation bar comes first in the HTML source, so Lynx displays it first. Search engines will also penalize you for this, since it looks like your main content is less important than your navigation bar (since the main content is further down the page, at least according to the HTML source).

You can solve this problem by using the table trick.

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