>>You get a thicker border between TRs nothing visual that is blue. So my guess is the HR has some default pad when put in a TD tag.
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>Try the STYLE="Padding: 0px;" or something like that.

< TD bgcolor="Blue" height="1" STYLE="Padding: 0px;" >< hr size="1" width="200" >

Gives a blue background with a grey line. You can control the width of the line and the height of the element is reduced (subjective term) with the STYLE="Padding: 0px;" statement.

Tom