Suckertree Vertical Menu - content being pushed beneath menu?

[EricaC]

1) Script Title: SuckerTree Vertical Menu (v1.1)

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/cs...-vertical/P70/

3) Describe problem:
I'm attempting to have the menu on the left and content on the right. What I'm getting is menu pushing content down.

This mockup includes only the relevant parts of the website, all my CSS is embedded. Script CSS is linked, but is unchanged from what appears on the URL noted above.
http://greatlakeswebdesign.com/publi.../mock_menu.php

Unfortunately the client will not hear of the width being dynamic, so the fixed width is a requirement. I'm thinking the problem is something about div widths?? Any help is appreciated!

[ddadmin]

By pushing content down, do you mean how the textual content appears beneath the menu, instead of side by side? If so, this doesn't have anything to do with the menu, but rather, just how your page is laid out CSS wise. For example, even if you remove the entire HTML for the menu itself (<div class="suckerdiv">..</div>) and replace that with regular text, that text still shows above the rest of the textual content.