Thanks for the response.
I ended up abandoning the rollover images and instead set the background as i wanted and then used css styles to make the text change colors with mouse on and off. works great. now i have run into another problem that is absolutely driving me batty.
I have set up a header and footer include files, and have them include on my content pages. i have been using php designer to debug, and when i use it, it will show all the images with no problem, but when i debug the content page it wont show any of the images, nor when i upload everything and then view in a browser. it shows the pic frames but no images.. i get all the typed content, i even get the css styled rollovers with no problem (altho its hard to tell since the beginning text is white) so i have no clue what is going on, i have tried to move my image file, fixing the coding in the process, changed my include files to html files, not sure what else to do to straighten this out.
any ideas?……
Edit:
Never mind, i figured it out.. –DOH!– basically i set the paths for the images relative to the includes, not the content pages, so its all straight.