thanks Egg and Gary for this quick reply."
Did you remember to open the Names Gallery and select all..."no i did not do that Gary although it was clearly indicated in your tutorial!
Egg yes i 've been using "selected" from the drop down menu before sending to export...don't know where i've picked that up from???.
now it seems to be working fine.
My next step is to built a full web page...shall i'll be saving all these files directly on my C/sites where my root folder is located on my hard drive , open Dreamveaver and bring these files into that application one by one to add content(text,tables etc)or is there a quicker integration with Dreamveaver?
Last thing i'm noticing is when exporting this navbar from xara...it almost brings my whole system to a halt(pentium3...512mgs of ram)while saving.it takes ages to process all this tiny gif files and their masks , the screen goes all white and i have to shut down all other applications....is this normal?
thanks