FrontPage adds a lot of garbage and/or IE specific code, just as any other Microsoft product. I started coding by hand, moved to FrontPage and then began using Dreamweaver. From my experience, with each new version of FrontPage, there's more and more unnecessary code added.
I now create my designs in Firework, export them to XHTML, and set up/load content via Dreamweaver. Any coding that I do (e.g. ASP, PHP) is done in Homesite. After using Dreamweaver for 4 - 5 yrs, I haven't really found anything wrong with it. Does it add code? Yes, on occasion, it throws in an unneeded DIV or SPAN tag here or there, but, overall, I've not really had all that much of a problem with it. My pages validate and, if I happen to catch an unneeded tag, I remove it.
FrontPage? <<shudder>> :-)
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