I retackled this fix and now have a much better way of doing this that I have been using for many projects.
Please see my new solution here

— Old Solution for archive purposes ——————

I was faced with the challenge of creating my first fixed width SharePoint site and the content had to be centered!

SharePoint 2010 implements a complicated system of divs, css and JavaScript to attain their static ribbon at the top of the screen but unfortunately this can get messy with different layout types.

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