Spry dropdown z-index problems in IE

Hello
I'm having some trouble with the spry horizontal dropdown in
IE, and it's interaction with SmoothGallery. In every browser (with
the exception on IE 6&7 of course) the higher z-index values of
the menu cause it to overlay the JS image gallery below it. In IE
however it does not.
http://www.digitalrift.co.uk/projects/woods/
Works fine on every browser tested so I can't see how it'd be
a fault with the z-index values used. Anyone have a suggestion as
to a workaround for good ol' IE?
Thanks

All right, well I just figured out my problem, and hopefully this will help anybody else.
I was positioning my images using <position: absolute;> While this is definitely the easiest way to specifically place something on a page, Internet Explorer, it seems, assigns that z-value as the highest on the page, which is why my dropdown menus wouldn't appear on top of the image, but behind it.
The solution I found was changing the position attribute to "static" rather than "absolute". The "static" attribute can't use position qualities like "top", "bottom", "left", and "right", but has to use margins and float to be specifically place.
While this isn't as easy as absolute positioning, using the static value will allow the Spry dropdown menu to appear over top of the images instead of behind them.

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