I use a program called Topstyle Lite. I think it's a macromedia thing. After a ton of fooling around with the css sheet, I was able to find out how to turn backgrounds transparent, and pretty much get the effect I needed.

The boxes I needed to control transparencies for in particular were navMainSearch, navColumnOne, and navColumnTwo. I'm only saying this for reference, because I'm sure someone along the line is going to be wondering how to do the same thing.

Now I have to figure out how to create a sidebox that just has regular buttons with a particular image, and treat them as regular links. Should be fun :)

Which actually brings up a new question. If I create a new page, say an About Us page, how would I handle that with .css? I know in html I would physically create another page and just use the buttons to link the two pages, but I'm not too sure about .css'.

Thanks a ton for the advice clyde, seriously. I'm sure you've had your share of people posting wondering what to do, you help them, and never get a thanks for it. Yet, your still willing to come back and help people like me. Means a lot to us noobs, ya know.

*edit*

I see that you gave advice for creating links, just don't fully understand it. I'm gonna be messing around with it tonight, hopefully it'll come to me.