Is there a way to prevent the Editor from modifying my HTML

Is there a way to prevent the Visual Editor from modifying my HTML when creating a post or a page? I know it has good intentions in doing what it does, but sometimes I’d prefer it not to touch my HTML, yet render the HTML in visual mode.

Thank you!

Sample of code used in editor:

<td width="124" align="left" valign="top">
    <p style="line-height: 140%; font-size: 10px; color: #333; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">
        <strong>Team Demo of the New Shake Table</strong>
    </p> 
    <p>
        <strong>May 17, 4-6pm</strong>
    </p>
    <p style="line-height: 140%; font-size: 10px; color: #333; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; padding: 0 0 8px 0;">
        <strong>Tech Exhibition in Oslo</strong>
    </p>
    <p><strong>June 5-9, Halle</strong>
</td>

This wordpress plugin seems to do the trick for my problem…

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/raw-html/

It does seem wrong that if I enter code in the html editor it then strips it unless I resort to cheats like the pluging or adding class tags that do nothing.