Just a follow up in the event someone reads this thread with similar issues.

The style sheet was to blame for my problem. It is not the CSSAdapters, but rather, I modified the stylesheets to fullfill my style needs for my site. However, I used IE7 styles such as li:hover. IE6 does not support li:hover functionality. It only supports the hover attribute on anchor tags.

 I'm in the process of trying to find a style work around (probably javascript), but wanted to caution other's who may also have IE6 difficulties.

Short of working through some performance issues, I came across the IE7 Compatability scripts created by Dean Edwards. These scripts put the ul/li:hover functionality into IE 5 and 6. Once I dropped these into my javascript folder and put the conditional include into my page, all my problems disappeared.

 http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/

The adapter kit comes with a file called JavaScript\MenuAdapter.js that already has all the logic in it to deal with hovering over LI tags. It sets a special class on the LI that lets you style it. I'm not sure why your site didn't already invoke that JS and have it work. You shouldn't need to use Dean's scripts or anything else.

Take a look at the sample pages on IE6 and you should find that they work fine. And, of course, they work on IE7 and FF and other browsers (that already handle li:hover correctly).

Russ, I appreciate your reply, unfortunately, I plugged in the raw IE6 sample, and only the base level showed up in IE6, no additional flyout pieces worked. Once I started manipulated the IE6 styles , particularly the "height=1% !important" tag, my flyouts started to work, but the code would not pick up on the li:hover tags that I put in.

I think this is probably because of the way that I set up my styles, and the fact that my menu has a lot of styles applied to it (background tags, different font colors on flyout, different font colors on selection, and a class tag added in the adapter that signifies the last item in a ul section).

Do you forsee me having any problems using Dean's code? Currently it is working great, and I'm only having to use one style sheet rather than two... unfortunately, it looks like the site may loading a little slower in IE6 because its adding javascript tags for the hover attribute.

I also haven't tested to see if it is playing nicely with the iframe that you are inserting behind the flyout... but so far, its a lot further along than where I was last Friday.