Woodhog, People keep trying to come up with better router tables. They are engineering them to extreme tolerances for precision used in metal working. This is a terrible waste of money. First off, wood moves. It breathes, absorbs moisture and changes size. This instantly makes those ultra fine tolerances useless. You can spend as much of your hard earned money as you like on these and still get results no better than with any other table. I am opposed to the idea of mounting your router underneath a table saw wing. This means every time you want to use one or the other you will have more set up to deal with. The location of the router makes it more difficult to change bits or adjustments. The sliding table idea is borrowed from european table saws. You will never convince me that sawdust wont get on the tracks and cause the table to move out of plane. Don't forget that metal requires care to prevent rust. If you work in the average garage shop you will be spending time each month caring for the metal when you could be wood working. Laminated router table tops require a shot of window cleaner once in a great while, followed with a quick wipe of a rag. You can also make pencil marks on the laminate for positioning, and by licking your thumb and a quick rub they are gone. Bob and Ricks "Simple is better" approach to routing makes sense to me.
If you have never seen the Router Workshop (as many members haven't) please watch it on
www.thewoodworkingchannel.com
Once you see how simple this system is to use you will be hooked. I have built many router tables, nice ones at that. I have been converted. I think you might come to the same conclusions I did. Simple really is better.