It's a crappy attitude like that that will let Microsoft own the web.
If you can't put the effort into achieving W3C compliant code, then very frankly, you have no right at all to call yourself a web designer.
You're right, Netscape 4 is obsolete and a pain in the ass to work with. But if you code in pure W3C HTML without any of that extra IE or Netscape **** , then you're virtually guaranteed to get a page that looks exactly the same in every browser out there, including the obscure ones such as Opera, iCab, and Konquerer.
And I'd like you to show me the three year old code in Mozilla, Matt. I dare you.