Rich,
I think the natural tendancy to land to the left, and the drift caused by getting your "kick" in too early, are completely unrelated.
If the cross-wind is from the left and you kick too early, you will tend to drift to the right.
On the other hand, with no cross-wind at all, or with the wing-down method where there is no need for a kick (and so no possibility to time it wrong), lots of pilots will tend to land to the left of the centre line for no apparent reason.
Mark,
You asked:
What are the advantages of using a wing down stlye?
The big advantage is the lack of the "kick" which Rich has talked about. You actually land the aircraft with the into-wind wing low, one main wheel first then the other. The problem with the kick is that it has to be timed pretty much perfectly. You certainly don't want to get it late, in any aircraft. If you do it early, the lighter the aircraft, the more of a problem this will be, because once you've removed the crab, the aircraft will tend to get blown sideways by the cross-wind.
Aerobatic Flyer,
That's interesting. Never heard of it before - but it obviously works for you. I think, for me at least, the problem with being on the left happens before I flare. If I'm aware of it (and I try to always be aware of it, but I'd be lying if I claimed that I was aware of it most of the time!) I can actually catch myself lining up on final to the left of the centre-line, and I can correct it well before I reach the numbers.
FFF
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