Horizontal menu bar height and formating

I'm trying to put a horizontal menu bar into a table cell
that's 507px wide by 21px high. I've run into two issues.
First, adding a Spry MenuBar to this cell causes it to grow
by 1px in height and thus throwing off all of my graphics in other
cells. Setting the height in ul.MenuBarHorizontal to 21px does not
change this (20px, auto, inherit didn't change it either). I've
tried smaller fonts. Any ideas on how to get this work?
Second - if I don't set the height to a pixel value in
ul.MenuBarHorizontal, my background image is only displayed behind
the menu items. That leaves a good bit of white space. My
background image is 1px wide by 21px high and is stretched to fill
the full background. Setting a height will make the background
image cover the complete cell. Is that a feature?
thanks,
Dan

If I change the positioning element in ul.MenuBarHorizontal
to absolute, my horizontal menubar fits within the cell and does
not cause it to grow. Any other setting for positioning throws off
the cell size and screws up my sliced graphics in other cells of
the table. I don't understand why the menubar shifts in a fixed
width/height cell. If it's set to static or fixed, the cell grows
by 1px in height. If it is set to relative, it grows much
larger.

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/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
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Horizontal Menu Bar Help Needed

Hi there, I am somewhat new to web design but I've been helping a friend update his business's page recently. We use Dreamweaver CS3 and our hosting is thru GoDaddy.
My problem appears when I try to insert a horizontal menu bar (Insert>Spry>Menu bar) so that a dropdown menu will appear when I hover over an option, much like the top menu on the GoDaddy homepage, among others. It works correctly when I preview my page in a browser from Dreamweaver, (Firefox, IE) but when I actually upload my page to the GoDaddy servers and view it, it shows up not as a bar with hidden options, but as a long unformatted vertical list.
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I thought it might be a problem with CSS, but I made sure that all of the style sheets are properly uploaded to the servers, and I made sure that my browser accepted any Javascript applets. I've also tried it with my Dreamweaver CS5 trial. Like I said, I am an amateur in every sense of the word and I'm still learning technical terms for things so some of my jargon may be a bit flawed. I have done a good bit of online research in forums and otherwise, and I've tried solutions that have been given to similar problems. Maybe someone could view the source code and find out where I've gone wrong, or suggest tips to identify problems in Dreamweaver. I feel like the problem lies within the Spry framework, but I have very little knowledge on how it works or what it does.
Any assistance in this regard would be extremely helpful and appreciated.

Neither SpryMenuBar.js and SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css can be found by your online site.
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Horizontal menu bar mac to pc

Recently created this page: http://musicnotes.net/MNI/SPRY.html using Dreamweaver CS3 but it does not look the same in all browsers.
It starts out with the table width set for 100% and then hard sets the
column widths to force the complete heading to something like 1600 pixels
wide. The cell widths should be allowed to set themselves.
In IE 6.0, and probably IE 7.0, the mouse over point to change colors is a
narrow strip between the links. Results in white flashes as you move down.
In IE 8.0, which is now similar to FireFox, the mouseover color changes work
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doesn't look quite right.
Except for being forced super wide and too big, everything seems to work
okay in Firefox.
Does anyone know if these issues are resolved using CS4.

Thanks Gramps, will take a look and get sorted!
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:00:03 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I am having problems with my spry horizontal menu bar defaulting to the top of page in IE
The structure of your document needs fixing. You will be able to get a lot of information from here http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/css.html
After you have fixed the structure start with a fresh copy of SpryMenuBar. Read this before making any changes http://www.dwcourse.com/dreamweaver/ten-commandments-spry-menubars.php#one
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Hi, everyone --
This is my first post here, and my first time using spry. I
am trying to set up my horizontal menu bar so that the submenus
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menu item. (If the submenu list opens up vertically below the
parent item it takes up too much space.)
Any suggestions?
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LINK
2 things, first:
I want the submenu text to be smaller than the menu text,
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ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
display: block;
float: none;
width: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
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the bold addition does not seem to be working.
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To change the font-size, try placing the font-size property
on the <a> element of the submenus.
The IE7 sunken/iframe problem is a hack that is necessary to
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etc) that may be in the browser window. It's showing because you
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