Often I find that bullets need to be the last thing I do in formatting content in my projects. It seems that if you bullet items before your done adding links or drop downs, those links and drop downs have a tendency not to work. Remove the bullets and then all those bells and whistles work again. Adding the bullets back at that point seems to be a standard practice for me now or a troubleshooting tactic when content misbehaves. If I am getting really frustrated because I can't add some DHTML drop down or make an image map that pops at a specific size and location... I take out the bullets.
Is this a bug? I never had to do this with other programs that format text and that can add bullets.
EXAMPLE:
Because of the bullets in the content below I could not image map the menu bar in the attached image and have a picture appear in a sized pop-up box showing the underneath contents should the operator pick it. Like the first menu item SETTINGS should show this but doesn't till I remove the bullets:
The red squares are where I put the image maps for the user to further explore the software without having the software.
INSTRUMENT INTERFACE -
The Instrument Interface is where the user directs the Tracker to measure. 
The user wishing to bring in an instrument to a job file uses Instrument>Add on the menu bar. The operator has a few options available when adding the instrument:
Automated - SA automatically chooses the correct instrument and it's parameter settings to add from previous times opened,
Manual - The user is directed to select the proper instrument from a list and then run the Instrument Interface.
Simulated - In order to get some screen shot images or run an accuracy test without a real instrument connected, the user can operate the software, simulating a connected instrument
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I have moved this thread as it relates to topic production rather than the output.
When you create the link from the image you simply select a topic. Are you saying that if the target topic contains bullets, the link does not work? Sorry but I am struggling a bit to follow, not least because of the large font that means scrolling up and down to read the problem.
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You mean if the image map is in a list, correct?
If yes, then create an indented style so that the image is in line with the list items but in fact it is not.
If not, add a screenshot showing that shows more of the page.
What version of Rh? (Always include that in new threads)
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Sometimes the image is in a list, if it is though, the bullet is deleted for it. I never bullet images. I never indent images either, just center justify or place in a table cell to help with locating it next to text. The above example has a center justified image and image map (linked to user specified sized pop-up images) inside a paragraph that contains a bulleted list. The large image contains the image map and the small image is one of the pop-ups.
Is this a project that was originally created in Rh7 or earlier?
Rh8 changed to XHTML which is stricter. I am wondering if things would be better if you went to Tools > Options and checked the setting Convert to ... HTML.
Try that anyway.
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If you can recreate this in a new demo project and send it to me with step by step instructions on how to create the problem, I will take a look. From what you have described, I cannot see why this is happening.
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