Thanks for comments guys.
@Spence2
The colours, red,black and green are the motorsport colour of the topic area, the blue is a link to it's heritage. Not immediatly apprant I know
I'm not a pixel shifter by any stretch of the imagination. The original was three shades of blue which did work better, well it was designed that way; although not by me. It's certainy somthing I'm going to fiddle with when things have calmed down.
@DeanC
Yup I really need to sit down with that. The odd thing is I used the same layout pre-change and all was fine...left nav bar and forum content for example. I must of done somthing daft. I think the best bet is going to be an extra horizontal nav over a vertical sidebar nav...Trying to be that little bit different, not happy with it yet...but thats the whole point of having others review your work, generates some priority on the to-do list.
Thanks again.