Yeah, I came to my senses. Go ahead and snicker.
I like your use of the category and forum roll overs and background color changes. I have not seen anyone do that before.
Aside from those buttons blending in too much the ones with the pop up menu's need to match the popup_menu style or they look really silly.
But as I mentioned what I eventually came up with looks really good. I just spent the last month completely redesigning my website and it's content and I am a little slap-happy at this point and don't know where to stop.
I am close to uploading it all onto my server.
Again I thank you for your assistance!