.menu {
	position:absolute;
	left:268px; 
	top:57px; 
	padding:0 0 0 0; 
	margin:0 0 0 0px; 
	list-style-type:none; 
	display:inline;
	width:540px;
	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	z-index:25;
	_float:left;
}

.menu img {
	vertical-align: top;      /* prevent images from being pushed down by text */
}

.menu ul {
	z-index:99;
	padding:0;
	margin:0;
	border:0; 
	list-style-type:none;          /* we don't want to view the list as a list */
	line-height:1.5em;           /* globally set the menu's item spacing. note */
}                               /* this must be 1.0 or 1.5 or 2.0 for Mozilla */

.menu li {
	float:left;    /* this creates the side-by-side array of top-level buttons */
	position:relative;    /* create local positioning contexts for each button */
	margin:0; margin-left:10px;
}

.menu ul li table {
	margin:-1px 0;              /* IE5 needs -1px top and bottom table margins */
	m\argin:0;               /* re-zero the table margins for everyone but IE5 */
	border-collapse:collapse;      /* IE5 needs this for the sub-menus to work */
	font-size:12px;        /* this sets the base font size for our entire menu */
}

.drop {
	display:block;
	padding:0px 0.33em;	       /* this sets the l/r margins for our menu item */
	margin:0;
	text-align:right;   /* this right alignment goes with the float:left below */
	cursor:pointer;      /* IE tries to switch back to an I-beam, don't let it */
	cursor:hand;           /* IE5 only knows about "hand", so set it both ways */
}

.drop span {        /* this simultaneously left and right aligns the text and */
	float:left;       /* the >> in the drop-down menus which link to sub-menus */
}

#research {            /* this rightmost "Research" button must be positioned */
	position:absolute;       /* absolutely so that the YAH (you are here) text */
	top:0px;               /* label will slide underneath it under Opera v8.54 */
	left:364px;    /* which has a z-order sequencing bug with abs-pos elements */
}

/*======================== TOP LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/

.menu ul li ul {
	display:none;                  /* initially hide the entire list hierarchy */
	padding:0px;                               /* this is our box border width */
}

.menu ul li a,
.menu ul li a:visited {                    /* unselected top-level menu items */
	display:block;
	float:left;
	text-align:left;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:18px;
	margin:0;
	padding: 10px 5px 11px 5px;
	color:#003470;
	
}

.menu ul li:hover a,
.menu ul li a:hover {                        /* selected top-level menu items */
	padding: 10px 5px 11px 5px;
	text-decoration: none;	
	color:#FFF;    /* these 2 lines create the push-in illusion */
	height:16px;
	background:#003470;
}

/*======================== 2ND LEVEL MENU DEFINITIONS ========================*/

.menu ul li:hover ul,
.menu ul li a:hover ul {                           /* 2nd level drop-down box */
	display:block;
	position:absolute;
	margin:0; padding:0;
	top:37px;              /* place us just up underneath the top-level images */
	left:0px;
	height:auto;      /* the drop-down height will be determiend by line count */
	width:17em;	
}



.menu ul.rightmenu li:hover ul,
.menu ul.rightmenu li a:hover ul {    /* 2nd level neighborhood drop-down box */
	left:auto; 
	right:0;         /* nudge the right menu right to line up under the border */
}

* html .menu ul.rightmenu li a:hover ul {         /* IE5/6 needs a tweak here */
	right:-1px;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li {
	_margin:0; _padding:0;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li a,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a {                   /* 2nd level unselected items */
	border:0;
	margin:0;
	margin-left:-10px;
	padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;
	font-size:14px;
	font-weight: normal;
	height:auto;
	color:#fff;               /* this sets the unselected drop-down text color */
	width:13.5em;
	background:transparent;       /* this sets the drop-down menu background color */
	background-image: url("../images/popup_menu_bg.png");
	background-repeat: repeat;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #6881a3;
	
}

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover a,
.menu ul li a:hover ul li a:hover {                /* 2nd level selected item */
	background:#003470;
}

.menu ul li:hover ul.skinny li a,
.menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny li a,
.menu ul li:hover ul.skinny li a:hover,
.menu ul li a:hover ul.skinny li a:hover {     /* 2nd level un+selected items */
	width:8.08333em;
}



#text {           /* the Mac's standard Safari browser will not see this code */
	height:1.215em;#           /* ...  but every other browser will and should */
} /* Safari barfs on the illegal pound sign (#) after the rule's property val */