CSS title tabs with varying width, background images

Oh my... I don't use strong enough curse words to express myself. That CSS was just so, so, so, so, so, so, so much more complicated than it should have been.

It's finally attached.

A very nice graphical tab that expands to fit the line of text, has a left-side graphic bookending one side of the tab, a background behind the text, a right-side graphic leading into a background graphic that runs the width of the block, and finally a closing right-hand graphic on the end of that.

And it's still too fragile (looks bad when compressed), but it works.

Hmm, maybe a min-width in there...

But why did it take so many floats and junk in the first place? CSS expert review welcome.