Categories Colums

Hi all,

first topic here for a wordpress beginner.

Well, i’m a bit in trouble now ’cause of a layout i can’t figure out how to do ..and it’s not even easy to explain.

What i need is making the index.php page a sort of table. i need to have every category at the top of a column, in the column (under the category), should be a number of the last posts of that category.

I’ll try explaining it in a visual way:

Cat. ONE – Cat. TWO – Cat. THREE – Cat. FOUR
Post1 Post1 Post1 Post1
Post2 Post2 Post2 Post2
Post3 Post3 Post3 Post3

In an html way it should look like this:

<table>
<tr>
<td>CAT ONE</td><td>CAT TWO</td><td>CAT THREE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>POST1 (of category ONE)</td>
<td>POST1 (of category TWO)</td>
<td>POST1 (of category THREE)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>POST2 (of category ONE)</td>
<td>POST2 (of category TWO)</td>
<td>POST2 (of category THREE)</td>

etc. etc.

is there anyone who can help me in any way? i’m kinda of a wordpress newbie but it was asked to me to do exactly this kind of page, and it’s for work, not for fun!
thanks in advance for any kind of help.

ps: there’s a theme called grid-a-licious that is almost like what i need, exept in mine the colums must contain the posts of the category displayed at the top of the column.