welcome doug, that's a nice menu you have on the front page. How is it not working for you? Did you also insert the necessary pieces into your headerinsert file?
A lot of people have problems with the menus not working because they do not use base url's to call the scripts from within their forums, and the forum looks for them in your threads directory. Make sure you use / as in:
<script language="javascript1.2" src="/resources/custom.js"></script>
and not:
<script language="javascript1.2" src="resources/custom.js"></script>
that would work on the front page, but not deeper.