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Mr. Summers, you are a code genius.
I can believe I over looked this possibility.
It's a good day I've learned something new.

Thank you very much!

You are welcome!  Layers are a very poor choice for layout purposes.

-- 
Murray

What would you recommend?

Your problem is related to your nesting of positioned elements.  The 
submenus (with z-index of 10) are contained within an ancestor with z-index 
of zero (never use zero or negative z-indices).  Thus, the descendent 
submenus' z-index of 10 is only in the context of a z-index of zero (meaning 
that they will appear higher than another element with z-index of ... say 
... 4 within that same ancestor).  In other words, by nesting them this way, 
you have forced the page to treat them as if they all had a z-index of zero. 
Since the Flash container has a z-index of 1, well, you get the picture. 
Try making NavBG have a z-index of 5 and see what happens.

-- 
Murray 

I'd recommend first forgetting that absolute positioning even exists so that 
you aren't tempted to use it again!  To tell you the truth, I have probably 
only used it once on the last 10 sites I have built.  At best it's a 
specialty purpose tool, not a general use tool.

But - to move beyond "the layer age" to "best practice", you will have to 
study some HTML and CSS.  That may take a while for you.  In the meantime, 
you might consider using tables - they work, and while not best practice, 
they certainly won't get you into the same mess that absolute positioning 
does.

To replace absolute positioning as a primary layout methodology, you will 
have to familiarize yourself with -

1.  The normal flow of the page
2.  CSS floats, and how to clear them
3.  Use of margins and padding to precisely locate content on your page

Those are the three workhorse concepts you need to replace 'layers'.

Read this to begin with - then use Google to flesh out the details of the 
first two bullets above -

http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php


-- 
Murray 

Mr. Summers, I do appreciate the information and will look over the link you have here. As well as look into the other items you listed. I'm always interested in advancing my skill set.

Thank you

Good luck, Rick!

-- 
Murray