Topic awaiting preservation: This doesn't make sense

This menu works fine by itself.
http://cutter.ship.edu/~icn/junk/coolmenu.htm

But when I move it into the page that I need it in everything falls apart
http://cutter.ship.edu/~icn/junk/helpdesk.htm

I've tried setting it in it's own table and removing all the other CSS. I'm stuck please help.

This kills it: <a href="#">
This never works when there are complext matters at work in IE.
Remove the href="#".
Sorry, I know you want to keep the hand..but that's something I have encountered a thousand times now.
- But dont ask me why this happens..

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