Help acheiving equal height divs in a loop, using display:table

Hi there,

I am using a plugin called Views (by Toolset) which outputs a loop of my posts. It’s not PHP, but hopefully it’s pretty much teh same if you imagine it in PHP. Here is my code, which inlcudes some of the plugin-specific markup:

<div id="featureBox">
	<!-- wpv-loop-start -->
		<wpv-loop>

          <div class="homeFeature">
           <a href="[wpv-post-url]">
            <h1>[wpv-post-title]</h1>
            <p>[wpv-post-excerpt length="80"]</p>

            </a>
          </div>

		</wpv-loop>
	<!-- wpv-loop-end -->

</div>

and here is my CSS:

#featureBox {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  display:table;
}

.homeFeature {
  display:block;
  width:33.33333%;
  padding:45px 20px;
  float:left;
  text-align:center;
   text-align: center;
  vertical-align:middle;
  height:100%;
}

#featureBox div:nth-child(1), #featureBox div:nth-child(2),#featureBox div:nth-child(3) {
  border-bottom:1px solid #C5CDE3;
}

#featureBox div:nth-child(2), #featureBox div:nth-child(5){
  border-left:1px solid #C5CDE3;
  border-right:1px solid #C5CDE3;
}

.homeFeature h1 {
    font-family: 'Alegreya', serif;
	color:#473564;
	font-weight:400;
    font-size:2em;
  margin:0 0 20px 0;
  line-height:100%;
}

.homeFeature p {
  margin:0;
  font-size:0.9em;
}

.homeFeature a {
display:block;
}

.homeFeature a:hover {
  background-color:#FCD072;
}

I am having several issues:

MAINLY 1) the divs do not stay the same height, the way i would imagine they woudl be forced to if using this table/table-cell display css. Obviously when an H! tag takes up more than one line because the text is long, it makes the div unequal size. I want them to stay all the same size. Is this possible? What i am trying to achieve is basically the way you see the blog posts displayed on this theme here: http://my.studiopress.com/themes/whitespace/#demo-full

2) and secondly, although this is another topic, the a:link doesn’t expand to fill the div. It seems to fall short of teh padding. Is this normal behavior? (this is not teh most important part of my question, since i know it may require a separate post.)

Thanks in advance of anyone who can help me achieve this layout using divs where they all stay the save height.