I am trying to figure out how to do the type of navigation where when you mouseover it changes color...and not just the link, I want to do this for my layout...so can you help me?

Do you mean something like this? http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/csshighlight.htm

You can customize it, of course. An example of how I customized it is on this site: http://www.heartbandit.org . I used that script for the menu on the left.

Yes, that's it...I'll try that.