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I was in the same position, and learnt HTML/CSS as a result. I had constantly been doing layouts that were being mangled by front-end folks.
The most important thing about learning it was to understand that it's not print and that it will never be the same in every browser, so as a designer you need to build in tolerances for that and accept the things that just can't look 100% like they do in photoshop. (And to know when the front-end person was being lazy.)
Now I code to a certain level of complexity, and if it doesn't work in IE6 etc I look for help from a programmer. I can show them it in FF / Safari and ask them to emulate to as close as possible.
Learning HTML / CSS is not hard and there are good programmes out there (CSS Edit / Coda, Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor) to start you on the road.