Creating multiple  Spry menu bars in one site

I've been creating a website and I am required to use multiple templates to manage all the different sections of the site.  To make it much less of a hassle, once I created one template, I simply saved that template as another template so I would not have to start all over again.  On the first template I created a spry menu bar with a certain amount of buttons.  And because I created the other templates with that template, those templates had the same menu bar containing the same settings.  The problem is, because of the specified settings of the spry menu bar, if I change the amount of buttons from the original to one less, the whole bar on that template will get off center and messed up because the settings for the menu bar are not set to that certain amount of buttons, but if I change the settings to suite that amount of buttons, then the settings for all the templates change and that messes up the other menu bars on those templates because they have a different amount of buttons.  Currently my templates all contain 10 buttons and I am wanting to create a new menu bar with only about 4 - 6 buttons.  I thought going up to insert and inserting a brand new menu bar would do the trick but when I did that it inserted a menu bar that had all the settings of the already-created menu bar, (ie same background images, and hovers, etc.) as well as the width which, because the width is suited for 10 buttons, it does not properly make the default 4 button menu bar center correctly.  And if I try to change the settings on this menu bar then the same thing happens with everything changing and getting messed up.
So after this long explanation, my question is, how can I insert multiple spry menu bars into one site that are not correlated with each other in terms of all the settings so that when changed, will not affect each other?  I am guessing I am having this problem because I created all the templates from one template so they are all interlocked, but the page that I tried to insert the brand new menu bar on was not created from any of the templates and was the first page I made at the very start.
http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/ Here is the link to the site. The first page that opens up is the page that I tried to insert the brand new menu bar on.  If you click on band choir or elementary you will see the menu bars with 10 buttons that are all interlocked in terms of settings.  Also, I'd like to note that if I delete a button in one template, it does not delete that same button in the other templates, nor does it add a button to the other templates if I add one.  Only the physical appearance changes because the settings are meant for only one amount of buttons.  Sorry for the novel!

Alright well I just tried to use 2 complete different templates.  I created one brand new template from scratch, added the menu bar, gave it an ID of "band", and configured it to suite 10 buttons accordingly.  Then I started off from scratch again with a starting html page with a different css style sheet and added the menu bar and gave it a different ID of "choir" but the settings of the two different bars still act as one set of settings!  I dont know how to fix this problem.  Please tell me what to post if anything will help you. Im guessing the solution is very simple but I have tried everything.
here is the code for the two different menu bars (one in each template)
choir
  <ul id="Choir" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
      <li><a href="#">Programs</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Blog</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="#">Directors</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Forms</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Calendar</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Links</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
    </ul>
band
<ul id="Band" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/index.html">Programs</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/bandmain.html">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://centerburgtrojanmusic.blogspot.com/">Blog</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/directors.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Directors</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/directors/cooper.html">Cooper</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/directors/teschler.html">Teschler</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/directors/lee.html">Lee</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/shows.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Shows</a>
        <ul>
          <li class="MenuBarHorizontal"><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/shows/field.html">Field</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/shows/concert.html">Concert</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/gallery.html">Gallery</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/forms.html">Forms</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://trojanmusic.org/cal.html">Calendar</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/links.html">Links</a>      </li>
      <li><a href="http://phonytrojanmusic.zxq.net/band/contact.html">Contact</a></li>
    </ul>
I currently do not have any links attached to any of the buttons in the choir bar.  Something went wrong and now I have to make the whole site over again so it is not very accessible.  Please post back asap!

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    http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/sprymenu/customize2.php
    Nancy O.
    Alt-Web Design & Publishing
    Web | Graphics | Print | Media  Specialists
    http://alt-web.com/
    http://twitter.com/altweb

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    /* Ends Spry Menu Bar Widget 2.0 (1.0) Horizontal Menu Custom styles */

    I have systematically reviewed the tutorial of David Powers on the Spry Menu bar 2.0, and recreated the process in a methodical process - making one change at a time, and then checking each step on a cross browser testing server, and have found, quite to my amazement that what seems to be causing the problem of the "gap" in IE 6 is by removing the customized styles from the head of the individual pages, and placing them in CSS stylesheet that governs the entire site.
    I find this quite inexplicable.  When the customized CSS rules governing the menu bar are situated in a separate stylesheet, the page renders well enough for any of the "modern" browsers, but won't render in IE 6.  All that I get is a horizontal menu with drop downs, but none of the styling (specifically background colours, background images, etc.) that are called for in the stylesheet and that otherwise appear when rendered by other browsers.
    I realize that this sounds strange, but I was wondering if anyone had experienced this phenomenon, or could offer any explanation.
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    Steve Webster

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