having problems with my css/positioning menu

hi,

So I am using CSS Sculp and menu writer to build my page layout, I'm not super good or really very good at all w/ css I'm an oldschool tables convert :) - but I am having one hell of a time trying to position my menu made w/ the menu writer, can someone give me some guidance? I am going to upload a screenshot and the page code I am using. Basically I have my main header with my large graphic, but the top nav contains the background for the menuwriter menu (I am just using a transparent first level.) -

image is at
socaldesignproblem.jpg
(also in the image you can see I am ahving problems positioning the logo on the left side of the page effectively, if someone could point me in the right direction there also, would be much appreciated)
Code is at
socalcodeproblem.doc
(the image floating to the left I removed from the code itself cuz I wanted to focus on one problem @ a time)

Anyways any help would be much appreciated, and you might just save my head from imploding trying to figure out what the eff I am doing wrong. (which is likely a good many things)