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Chris, you are now one of the elite.

Acorn

For the first to force the link to open in the Placeholder, you need to change the target to the IFRAME name.
In the IFRAME code, include name="aussieAlert".
In the menu item Links, type in...

Chris, you use relative addressing. This avoids the full path problem.

In your example, the Link would just become menu/page_1.htm, menu/page_2.htm.
I, however, far prefer publishing the menu...