Thanks for all your help alchymyth… i have NO idea what I changed, but it seems to be working fine now.
I didnt have the child theme active when I had you check it, so I went to go activate it again, and the buttons were exactly how I needed them… Strangest thing ever…
My apologies for wasting your time!
http://www.projectsnowdrift.com is where the blog is hosted.
At the top there is the nav buttons to the various pages. These are using a single png file and uses CSS to change them from what I can tell.
Here is the code from the parent theme CSS thats relative to those buttons:
http://pastebin.com/c0ZjUmff
Whats happening though is that its still getting the image (nav.png) from the parent directory instead of the child directory, even if i copy that code into my child style.css