Hi 
I would really like to give some sortable goodness to the myriad old tables I have created. 
A little work has a proof of concept behaving ok. 
My one sticking point is that the placeholder does not work at all in IE 7 when using item:TR . It works OK in FF. 
I can make an  perform correctly. It seems to be specific to tables and 
Any ideas, I have been running through forums, not seeing a lot of people using sortable with tables.  
<style type="text/css">
.dndPlaceHolder 
{
    background-color:Red ;
    color:Red;
    height: 20px; 
    line-height:30px;
    border: solid 2px black;
}    
.dndItem
{
    background-color: #c0c0c0;
    border:solid 1px black;
    padding:5px; 
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" >
    $(function() {
  $("#myTable").sortable(
  {
placeholder:'dndPlaceHolder',
   distance:15,
   items:'tr', 
   forcePlaceholderSize:true, 
   change : dndChange,
   update : dndUpdate
      }
  );
$("#myTable").disableSelection();
$("#myList").sortable(
      {
   placeholder:'dndPlaceHolder',
   distance:15,
   items:'li', 
   forcePlaceholderSize:true, 
   change : dndChange,
   update : dndUpdate
      }
  );
$("#myList").disableSelection();
});
 function dndChange(event,ui){
 }
 function dndUpdate(event,ui){
    var msg = '';
 }       
</script>
<table id='myTable' >
   <tr class='dndItem' id='1'>
      <td>0 Active - Active</td>
   </tr>
   <tr class='dndItem' id='2'>
      <td>1 Closed - Closed</td>
   </tr>
   <tr class='dndItem' id='3'>
      <td>2 OnHold - On Hold</td>
   </tr>
   <tr class='dndItem' id='4'>
      <td>3 Pending - Pending</td>
   </tr>
</table>
<BR>
   <UL id='myList' >
      <li class='dndItem' id='1'>0 Active - Active</li>
      <li class='dndItem' id='2'>1 Closed - Closed</li>
      <li class='dndItem' id='3'>2 OnHold - On Hold</li>
      <li class='dndItem' id='4'>3 Pending - Pending</li>
   </ul>