sidebar nav and subnav cutoff

I’m using the Toolbox theme with 3.5.1.

I’ve moved the main navigation out of the header and into the sidebar.

I’ve made it stack vertically mostly by limiting the width in the css (if I don’t, it wraps to the width of the sidebar (240px)). My understanding is that normally one displays a list menu horizontally by using “display:inline;” but there was no instance of that in the original css. I’ve used “li {display:block;}” to try and force it vertical, but to no effect.

My problem is that the sidebar width is 240px, and if I offset the submenus too much, they’re cut off by that width. The menus have a “z-index: 99999”, and they display properly when the menus are in the header (overlapping the content) so I didn’t expect this problem.

I’d like them to be offset further to the right than I have them at this time.

Any suggestions about how I can achieve this?

See: http://www.deborahlloydkaufman.com/ (Galleries)

Thanks for any help in advance.

Max