making buttons for nav bar - mouseOver question

[bwood]

I was rather proud of myself until .....

I've constructed a number of buttons in a row - you could call that the nav bar. In the photos you can see the xara nav bar I'm replacing in the bottom of the pics. I have copied and pasted in place the elements for the mouse-over state, but they're not showing up on the mouse over layer which is turned on.

One pic is the mouseOff and the other is the mouseOn.

Perhaps its screen fatigue. They are all individual buttons - but there is no mouse-over state.

On the mouse-off state, which I've closed, you can see the labor of my efforts. (rectangles and text) All I want is a simple color change in the background of the buttons for the mouse over state.

The sub menus are also shown in the picture - those are pop ups.

All this is to alleviate the time it takes for a ready made nav bar to load. I'm lost on this one. Thanks for your help.

Bill