/**************** menu coding *****************/
#menu {
width: 8em;
/* background: #eee; no idea where this is */
background: slategray;
}

#menu ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#menu a, #menu h2 {
font: bold 11px/16px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
display: block;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color:  #ccc #888 #555 #bbb; 
margin: 0;
padding: 2px 3px;
}

#menu h2 {
color: black; /* color of text within vertical menu's #fff;  */
/* background: #000;   this is the dark blocks of vertical menu ... changed to slategray */
background: slategray; 
text-transform: uppercase;
}

#menu a {
color: black; /* color of text within vertical menu's #fff;  */
/* background: #efefef;   this is the other sub blocks of the vertical menu changed to          */
background: gray;
text-decoration: none;
}

#menu a:hover {  /* important stuff these are the hover colors on vertical menu */
color: lightgray; /* #a00;  */
background: gray; /* #fff; */
}

#menu li {
position: relative;
}

#menu ul ul ul {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 100%;
width: 100%;
}

div#menu ul ul ul,
div#menu ul ul li:hover ul ul
{display: none;}

div#menu ul ul li:hover ul,
div#menu ul ul ul li:hover ul
{display: block;}

</style>
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
 #menu ul li {float: left; width: 100%;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body {
behavior: url(csshover.htc);
font-size: 100%;
} 
#menu ul li {float: left; width: 100%;}
#menu ul li a {height: 1%;} 

#menu a, #menu h2 {
font: bold 0.7em/1.4em arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
} 

/* </style>  */