Seems simple enough right? Wrong!

Okay hopefully someone on here can help me. I am using Illustrator CS5 and I am working on a document. I'm trying to put a logo on top of another item created by the pen tool. seems simple enough right? Wrong, the software will not let me use object>arrange>bring to front or Cmd ] and cmd [ is there something that i'm doing wrong? I've redrawn the shape and it still won't let me, I've brought in the logo again, it won't let me, i've done a host of other things and it still won't let me put that stupid logo on top of the cloud (what i drew with the pen tool)
Thanks!

Not sure what you mean. Why is there more than one layer?
It could be that you intentionally created additional layers. It could be that you unintentionally created additional layers. It could be that you hit Cmd L some day. It could be that you pasted objects while Paste Remembers Layers was turned on. Or something else.

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deebee_eh wrote:
10.2.0.3.0 Standard ed.
RHEL
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{code]
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Jonathan Lewis
http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com
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Ive noticed that im having lots of ocurrences where
my maths goes wrong - usually i trace this to ints
multiplying doubles and stuff , or its in degrees
not radians .
But this one is too simple to seem to cause problems
screenY = 180 + ( 420 - (( 420 / 2200 ) * xE ) );
heres the code line which does the calculation, and
for a particular loop it
ran as xE = 223 .
xE is an int by the way.
For some reason this code always produces screenY =
600 ,
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