Hmmm, looking at my previous post for this project is jogging my memory. This is supposed to display the results of a recursive CTE which has indeterminate depth. Anywho, that led me down the road of using a viewcanvas or a flex repeater. Both worked well for displaying the column data with the multiple levels required. I'm adding headings and resize capability, so that's how this question came about.
I'm going to reach at some straws here. It may have been an inability to embed views in a recursive fashion or not being able to line up columns of a subview to a main view.
For reference, this is what I'm trying to accomplish: