Active Content W/ Rollover Buttons Help

I'm pretty new to web design, and I've been using dreamweaver
to create webpages. My problem is I have some rollover buttons I
made in fireworks and imported to dreamweaver as fireworks html,
and in IE7 I get the "activate active content" error. I installed
the dreamweaver 8.2 update, thinking that would fix it, but
although I can see that the extension to automatically change the
code so it'll work in IE in my preferences, the option to do so
never comes up. I read somewhere that it doesn't support image
tags, which I think mine are. So my question is: is there an easy
fix for this other than the update, or at least a fix for a
beginner who doesn't know javascript? I've googled to my heart's
content, and everything I've come across has been over my head.
Please someone help me with this. I can also post the code if
that'll help, just let me know. Thanks in advance!
Hiram

I'm not quite sure what the actual issue is here but several
things seem to
be confused.
My problem is I have some rollover buttons I made in
fireworks and
> imported to dreamweaver as fireworks html, and in IE7 I
get the "activate
> active content" error.
Buttons made in Fireworks and activated with Javascript are
not related to
the "activate active content" issue.
Do you have some Flash or other active content on your page
which is
triggering the "click to activate" which you're confusing
with your
Fireworks buttons?
I installed the dreamweaver 8.2 update, thinking that
> would fix it, but although I can see that the extension
to automatically
> change
> the code so it'll work in IE in my preferences, the
option to do so never
> comes
> up. I read somewhere that it doesn't support image tags,
which I think
> mine
> are.
I don't quite follow this part.
So my question is: is there an easy fix for this other than
the update, or
> at least a fix for a beginner who doesn't know
javascript?
Web content driven by Javascript is not active content so I'm
not sure what
the issue is or what needs fixing.
Can you post a link to your page?
Regards
John Waller

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>
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>
> I hope someone can help ! Thank you very much
>

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