Hi Cecil,

You could use \showframe before starttext, then you will see the  
relations of the areas. Here I do not see that the placement of the  
table is incorrect.

I tried to use \doerecurse with the table-environment and I also did  
not get a result.

A possibility is to use another table environment:

\bTABLE
	\bTR
		\bTD  ... \eTD
	\eTR
\eTABLE

This environment has more possibilities than \starttable. Herein  
\dorecurse does work. Moreover support for colouring is more  
advanced. Look for details in the enattab.pdf

I suggest you to use buffers for the content that the loops typeset.

A sample is in your fuel.tex

Willi