For some reason I can't get my text to stop running into the border on my cell background. I've tried divs, the p align tag and everything. Is there anything else I can try?

You could try 'padding' the cell - hehe, sound like something from an asylum, lol.

<table>
<tr>
<td style="padding:5px;">
Greetings
</td>
</tr>
</table>

In this case, the text should end 5 pixels from each side of the cell. You can specify different values for the padding for the top, bottom, left, and right (ie. style="padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:3px; padding-left:0px; padding-right:5px;") :D