There is not a link I can show you. That is the center of the mystery for me. I can't find the origin of the link that pops up.

When I hover over the "Home" tab, I can see that the path will be incorrect. It should be saying http://www.mysite/index.html  Instead, it is saying  http://www.mysite/_pages/index.html   I already know it's not going to find the 'Home' page in the "pages" folder. So why is it trying to tell me that's where it is?

I had the thought that the "broken links" checker in Dreamweaver did more damage than I had previously imagined. I just checked the navigation on one of the pages in the "pages" subfolder and found this at the top of the Spry navigation:

<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="../index.html">Home</a>  This indicates a correct path from a sub-folder page  TO the "Home" tab in the Spry menu, I assume. But I have no idea how this got there other than from a "broken links" check. (It was a page created from a template.)

I'm self educated. And I know that's an oxymoron, but shouldn't all the pages in my site come from the same template? So the same navigation appears on each page? I really don't know some of these basic things. Should my links be document relative or site root relative? I only have 29 pages and this is my first published site. I think I should start all over again. What would your thoughts be on that? At this point I'm wondering if that is the path of least resistance.

John O.

I apologize for lack of content. I thought I was making it clear. But of course my eyes are beginning to cross at this point.

Yes, your assumptions are correct. At the top of this page I described it as best I could. The 8 visible menu tabs link to pages nested in the root. All other pages lived in a sub-folder titled "pages".

The index.html file lives in the root as well.

The drop-downs link to pages in a sub-folder.

I can skip across the menu bar and each page appears as it should. But when I click on a drop-down link to a page in a sub-folder, I am not able to go back to the top menu.

When I hover over the 'Home' tab, the command indicates http://www.mysite/_pages/Home

   I just finished moving all the sub-folder pages to a new sub-folder and created a completely new template with new navigation links.

   The same problem occurs, but with the new navigation links.

When I click on a sub-folder page and then hover over the 'Home' tab, the command indicates: http://www.mysite/newsubfolder/home

So I will try your suggestion. Thank you for your time. I will let you know how it goes. If this doesn't work, I'm going to scratch this and begin again.