External css defining different from inline attribute?

I right-aligned my submittion date with an external css defining and the result was

http://www.geocities.com/team_essential/needhelp/dateWith_css.gif

I noticed it didnt go to the end of the table, so I aligned it with align=“right” and got

http://www.geocities.com/team_essential/needhelp/dateWithOUT_css.gif

Can anyone help me? The difference is that the css one also defines a few text sizes, color, font, ect.