Floating box problem

I have just migrated a site that I built in CS4 to Dreamweaver CS6.  It has this (stupid) floating box that the client wants to be visable as the site is scrolled.  It works fine when the browser window is full size, but the box just keeps scrolling till it's out of site when the browser window is made smaller.  I was given the code to put this box into the site, so I have no idea why it no longer works in this situation when it worked before I did the monthly update in Dreamweaver CS6.
The site is not responsive, mostly because of this floatingbox and uses two navigation systems.  The URL is www.fulcrumcwi.com and I am using version 12.0 in Dreamweaver CS6.
Any help with this would most certainly be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Nina

Have you ever used this with a responsive site? 
I've used position:fixed headers & footers in responsive sites. 
http://alt-web.com/TEST/HTML5-3-figures.html
I think the sticky text box would be too awkward in % width layouts. But you could try it and see.  If it gets in the way on mobile devices, kill it in a CSS Media Query with display:none.
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