Andrea,
I did it both ways; by <p>&</p>'s and as a list. In each case I had the same results: the links would color as declared in the Pseudo classes in the .css, but they would not hover or link... nothing... just static green underlined text. Thanks for the coding observation (I do listen *S*).
In the centerdoc <div>, the links work just fine; green underlined text, then blue in hover, then magenta as they go active and yes they do link. I then duplicated (cut/paste) the contents of the navigation <div> into the centerdoc <div>, so that I had identical contents in each of the 2 <div>s and all the links in the centerdoc worked just fine, but the links in the navigation <div> remained underlined green and static. I then duplicated the list multiple times (in the navigation <div>), then the lowest ones worked... while the original ones remained static, then when I deleted the static ones (uppermost), then all the links in the navigation <div> become static and did not work.
This may sound weird, but there appears to be some kind of a shadow? or dead zone? When there is anything in the centerdoc <div> (RHS) (parallel to the navigation <div> links) (LHS), the navigation <div> links are static. This does not seem to effect the centerdoc <div>. When the navigation <div> links are multiplied to the point where they extend past the centerdoc <div> content, then those navigation <div> links (below the centerdoc <div> content) work just fine.
Is there some special magic for <div>'s? Special flag? Is this a firefox/Mozilla problem? I cannot see but that this should be a simple situation.
-pcv