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Thanks. I'll post here if/when I figure it out - probably not until next week.

Thanks for the input, SEOLover. I already had * {margin: 0; padding: 0;} in my code. Tried adding *html before the div name, no use. Still in the same position. My next step, when I have the time all in one lump, will be to strip out ALL margin and padding calls, then add them back in one at a time until I find the culprit!

*sigh* It was a good suggestion. I even added {margin:0;} to every #subMenu line - nothing. Here is the new code: /* Holds the inner-level submenus */ #subMenu { width: 150px; margin:0 0 1em 0; padding: 0 0 1em 0; /*margin-bottom: 1em;*/ font-family: Verdana, Lucida, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:0.9em; background-color: #90bade; color: #333; text-align:left; } #subMenu ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding:0; border: none; } #subMenu li a { margin:0; display: block; padding: 5px 5px 5px 0.5em; border-left: 10px solid #1958b7; border-right: 10px solid #508fc4; background-color: #2175bc; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; /*width: 100%;*/ } #subRE, #subFin, #subCorpSvc {text-indent:1em;margin:0;} html>body #subMenu li a { width: auto;margin:0; } #subMenu li a:hover { margin:0; border-top: 2px solid #000000; border-bottom: 2px solid #000000; border-left: 10px solid #1c64d1; border-right: 10px solid #5ba3e0; background-color: #2586d7; color: #FFFFCC; } Nothing changed. Man, I wish there was some way to just zap every PC with Internet access and upgrade to IE7 whether the user wants it or not! *grumble grumble grumble*

Yes, I do.

Oh, man - maybe I really AM going crazy! LOL There are light blue horizontal bars running across the menu at intervals coinciding with the end of each LI element in the outer UL element. The inner UL and LI elements are unaffected. The only light blue bar that should be evident is the one along the bottom of the menu, to give it a terminus. These bars are only visible in IE6 and AOL. They are properly missing in IE7 and the latest versions of Firefox, Netscape, and Opera. Maybe it's the other way around - maybe only IE6 and AOL are rendering my CSS correctly - giving me an unwanted result - and it's the other browsers that are giving me what I want by improperly presenting the CSS! Either way, I don't want the horizontal light blue bars and spacing throughout the length of the menu. Hope that helped.

Okay. I picked up code for a vertical CSS menu by Mark Newhouse from http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical10.htm (this is a great resource, by the way). It was almost what I needed right out of the box, but I modified it to include nested ULs. I can't for the life of me figure out what changed in the code that made the menu go from appearing properly in every browser I checked it in, to not working in IE6 and AOL. It still works exactly as intended in the latest versions of Firefox, Netscape, and Opera, as well as in IE7. There are no coding errors according to Dreamweaver, the webmaster toolbar on Firefox, and the W3 validation tool. However, all of a sudden, there appears to be a margin of 1em called out below each of the "outer" LI tags but not the "inner" (nested) tags. You can view the menu at http://www.amerigocompanies.com/dev/Business, and the CSS code at http://www.amerigocompanies.com/dev/mainB2B.css. You can also view the same menu working fine in ALL the browsers (except it's too wide) at http://www.amerigocompanies.com/dev/navbarsample02.html and http://www.amerigocompanies.com/dev/navbarsample02.css I've been looking at the two CSS style sheets and the HTML code for the menu side by side and cannot see what's different between the two. Yet, if I swap them out, the working menu "breaks". I need a fresh pair of eyes to look at the code. I know it's going to be something completely obvious that will make me want to bang my head on the desk, but I've wasted far too much of my boss's time trying to troubleshoot this by myself, so I'm reaching out. Please - can someone look at those pages in both a "working" browser and IE6 and tell me what the heck I'm missing? Thanks - you'll be my friend for life! Lynda