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I tend to make sites no wider than 720 pixels. That way you can avoid making "Printable Versions". For most people at least.
Plus, 720 divides evenly by 3 or 4. Plus, if you use a 150px width for a verticle primary nav then your content well is easily divisable by 3 as well.
You should always allow about 20 px for scrollbars concerning width.
As for height, not as big of a concern but you still want to try to keep important content above the fold. At factory default settings that means that you've got about 500 px if your visitor is at 8*6.
I tend to use http://www.thecounter.com for my stats because I feel that it gives the best well-rounded stats. The W3C stats are horribly skewed towards the web dev community so you're going to see abnormally high percentages of high resolutions and Firefox users.
Hope that helps.