thanks very much for that that works nice but it or my page seems to have a prob when i click on the active link which looks like this but with only one url after you click it theres 2 urls in the address bar of ie like this below and it goes to a page not found.
http://islandtitanz.org/PHP-Nuke/www...**************
ass you can see it show the url twice would you happen to know where this is coming from cause im not sure were to look?