Thanks for digging around, mikmik. Like you said, it seems that Firebird won't respond if just the height is specified... I'm not enough of a programmer or html standards expert to label this a Firebird bug or simply poor html on my part. I guess it doesn't really matter too much.
I got tired of pulling my hair out and attacked it from a diffrent angle. You can see what direction I'm moving in now at
www.static.divergentlines.com/about_us.html . Basically I'm using a simple table with the far right cell bgcolor to match the color I wanted on the right, then putting in the gif and nav menu in that cell.
Just in case anyone else ever runs into this issue, I tried doing some <div> stuff which got me in the right direction in some areas, but just caused more problems in others. You can see what I ended up with using this attack at
www.static.divergentlines.com/contact.html, it will only use <div>'s for the next few minutes until I convert it to the table format I decided to go with.
I think css would be a good strategy here, but I am still not comfortable enough with the layout functions yet.
Perhaps I will get more assistance if I
threaten to post the cyanide photo if someone does not resolve this issue for me, lol.