It looks great! I think you should pad, so the footer is closer to the bottom, but I don't know what screen size you're shooting for. I'm on a 21", so the text looks a bit small, but your links at the top get a bit lost with the grey strip at the top of the header. This could be 'cos of my screen size, however.
Well done and thanks for showing us! 
As regards to the footer, yeah hard to keep it in a fixed position; at the bottom. But when all the pages are full of content you would never noticed its because a handful are short in content.
Screen sizes are always an issue, on my iMac at home it looks great, but on my iBook with a different resolution the content of the footer overflows. Tricky.
I am designing at resolution 1680 x 1050, but I've tried to fix the overall body width to 75%, but telling the browser to leave it there is another business altogether. I've jumped in and out of different resolutions, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
PS. Does this board have any moderation? Seems to be a lot of posters who haven't reached puberty yet.
