Layers and flash-simple question

[countdrak]

So I have a vertical flash drop down menu, with buttons. When the user clicks a button the vertical drop down menu opens.
So the stage in the .fla file is set to 554X400 so that the menu opens properly. The size of the flash componenet is 554X46. I need the height of the stage to be bigger so the flash menu drops down clearly.

Now here is the problem. I insert the swf file in a <td> where the table width is set to 554 and the height to 100%. Right under the drop down menu I insert an image, but the problem is the image only shows up on the page after 400 pixels.


I want the drop down to overlap the image right under it. So the image should show up right under menu buttons and when the user clicks the button the menu should drop on the image. I am super new to flash, so all the help will be appreciated.

		<object codebase="[URL unfurl="true"]http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab##version=7,0,0,0"[/URL] width="554" height="400" align="left">
			<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
			<param name="movie" value="[URL unfurl="true"]http://127.0.0.1/test.swf">[/URL]
			<param name="quality" value="high">
			<embed src="test.swf" quality="high" width="554" height="400" name="menu" align="left" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"[/URL] ></embed>
		</object>

Here is the link to the componenet I am using --

http://ghostwire.com/go/524

 

[oldnewbie]

Movie must be transparent and on a higher layer/division...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/wmode.htm

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/dhtmlflash.htm