Does your flash write anything to the page? Does it display in other browsers for you aside from ie and firefox? It's dropping down for me in safari with the code as this (which has no changes but the javascript and css inside it rather than linked).
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="DefaultLayout.aspx.vb" Inherits="DefaultLayout" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Test Home Page</title>
<!--[if lte IE 7]>
<style type="text/css">
html .jqueryslidemenu{height: 1%;} /*Holly Hack for IE7 and below*/
</style>
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*********************
//* jQuery Multi Level CSS Menu #2- By Dynamic Drive: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
//* Last update: Nov 7th, 08': Limit # of queued animations to minmize animation stuttering
//* Menu avaiable at DD CSS Library: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/
*********************/
//Specify full URL to down and right arrow images (23 is padding-right to add to top level LIs with drop downs):
var arrowimages={down:['downarrowclass', 'down.gif', 23], right:['rightarrowclass', 'right.gif']}
var jqueryslidemenu={
animateduration: {over: 200, out: 100}, //duration of slide in/ out animation, in milliseconds
buildmenu:function(menuid, arrowsvar){
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
var $mainmenu=$("#"+menuid+">ul")
var $headers=$mainmenu.find("ul").parent()
$headers.each(function(i){
var $curobj=$(this)
var $subul=$(this).find('ul:eq(0)')
this._dimensions={w:this.offsetWidth, h:this.offsetHeight, subulw:$subul.outerWidth(), subulh:$subul.outerHeight()}
this.istopheader=$curobj.parents("ul").length==1? true : false
$subul.css({top:this.istopheader? this._dimensions.h+"px" : 0})
$curobj.children("a:eq(0)").css(this.istopheader? {paddingRight: arrowsvar.down[2]} : {}).append(
'<img src="'+ (this.istopheader? arrowsvar.down[1] : arrowsvar.right[1])
+'" class="' + (this.istopheader? arrowsvar.down[0] : arrowsvar.right[0])
+ '" style="border:0;" />'
)
$curobj.hover(
function(e){
var $targetul=$(this).children("ul:eq(0)")
this._offsets={left:$(this).offset().left, top:$(this).offset().top}
var menuleft=this.istopheader? 0 : this._dimensions.w
menuleft=(this._offsets.left+menuleft+this._dimensions.subulw>$(window).width())? (this.istopheader? -this._dimensions.subulw+this._dimensions.w : -this._dimensions.w) : menuleft
if ($targetul.queue().length<=1) //if 1 or less queued animations
$targetul.css({left:menuleft+"px", width:this._dimensions.subulw+'px'}).slideDown(jqueryslidemenu.animateduration.over)
},
function(e){
var $targetul=$(this).children("ul:eq(0)")
$targetul.slideUp(jqueryslidemenu.animateduration.out)
}
) //end hover
}) //end $headers.each()
$mainmenu.find("ul").css({display:'none', visibility:'visible'})
}) //end document.ready
}
}
//build menu with ID="myslidemenu" on page:
jqueryslidemenu.buildmenu("myslidemenu", arrowimages)
</script>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica, sans-serif, Trebuchet MS;
color: #000000;
}
.bckgrndclr
{
background-color: #d4e3f0;
}
.aligncenter
{
text-align:center;
}
.imgalign
{
position:fixed;
top: 51px;
left: 70px;
height: 157px;
}
.imgalignrt
{
position:fixed;
top: 3px;
Right: 40px;
}
.largefont
{
font-family: lucida Calligraphy, Bradley Hand ITC, Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica;
font-size: 2.5em;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
font-variant: normal;
width:370px;
color: #000000;
position:fixed;
left:185px;
top:90px;
}
.sloganfont
{
font-family: lucida Calligraphy, Bradley Hand ITC, Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica;
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
font-variant: normal;
color: #000000;
position:fixed;
left:140px;
top:141px;
width: 412px;
}
#banner
{
background-image: url(images/backgrnd.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
border-bottom: 2px solid #5fa4e3;
width: 100%;
height: 19em; /*260px;*/
position: fixed;
top:0px;
z-index: 3;
}
#container
{
margin-top: 19.5em;
}
#content
{
margin-left: 16em;
margin-right:2em;
}
.cleardiv
{
clear: both;
height: 1em;
}
.jqueryslidemenu{
font: bold 12px Verdana;
background: #414141;
width: 100%;
}
.jqueryslidemenu ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
/*Top level list items*/
.jqueryslidemenu ul li{
position: relative;
display: inline;
float: left;
}
/*Top level menu link items style*/
.jqueryslidemenu ul li a{
display: block;
background: #414141; /*background of tabs (default state)*/
color: white;
padding: 8px 10px;
border-right: 1px solid #778;
color: #2d2b2b;
text-decoration: none;
}
* html .jqueryslidemenu ul li a{ /*IE6 hack to get sub menu links to behave correctly*/
display: inline-block;
}
.jqueryslidemenu ul li a:link, .jqueryslidemenu ul li a:visited{
color: white;
}
.jqueryslidemenu ul li a:hover{
background: black; /*tab link background during hover state*/
color: white;
}
/*1st sub level menu*/
.jqueryslidemenu ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
display: block;
visibility: hidden;
}
/*Sub level menu list items (undo style from Top level List Items)*/
.jqueryslidemenu ul li ul li{
display: list-item;
float: none;
}
/*All subsequent sub menu levels vertical offset after 1st level sub menu */
.jqueryslidemenu ul li ul li ul{
top: 0;
}
/* Sub level menu links style */
.jqueryslidemenu ul li ul li a{
font: normal 13px Verdana;
width: 160px; /*width of sub menus*/
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
border-top-width: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
}
.jqueryslidemenuz ul li ul li a:hover{ /*sub menus hover style*/
background: #eff9ff;
color: black;
}
/* ######### CSS classes applied to down and right arrow images ######### */
.downarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 12px;
right: 7px;
}
.rightarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 6px;
right: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body class="bckgrndclr">
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id="banner" >
<img src="images/CSpalmTree.jpg" alt="Consejo Shores Logo" align="left" class="imgalign"/>
<h1 class="largefont">Consejo Shores</h1>
<h3 class="sloganfont">The best kept secret in Tropical Real Estate</h3>
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="600" height="255" class="imgalignrt">
<param name="movie" value="images/CS4_flash.swf" />
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="images/CS4_flash.swf" width="600" height="255">
<!--<![endif]-->
<p>Consejo Shores Photos</p>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>
<div id="myslidemenu" class="jqueryslidemenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com">Item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Folder 1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 1.4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Folder 2</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Folder 2.1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1.2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Folder 3.1.1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 3.1.1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 3.1.1.2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 3.1.1.3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 3.1.1.4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 3.1.1.5</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Sub Item 2.1.4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Item 4</a></li>
</ul>
<br style="clear: left" />
</div>
<div id="container">
<div id="cont_content">
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Properties</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Purchase Info</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Belize Info</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Photo Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="#">About/Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">
Page content goes here
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>