Thank you, Ben for your feedback. I will try the alternate coding that you have supplied.The button issue is perplexing.On my system, XP IE6, SP2 the buttons do not appear until you place your mouse over their positions. I believe this is not a browser setting because the other online development we are working on use Adobe Dreamweaver and all of the buttons there use the similar "preload" function.Thank you again. I will change the coding and repost.elearner
