Thanks for your quick and accurate response, worked great on both issues.
I also wanted to change the hover color of the menu so I grabbed this piece of code and modified it to fit the colors I wanted:
#branding ul.menu li:hover > a,
#branding ul.menu a:focus,
#colophon #access-footer ul.menu a:hover,
#colophon #access-footer ul.menu a:focus {
background: linear-gradient(#7b1f0a, #501407) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
It worked but is that the correct way to do it or is there potential problems with browser types or anything else I am not aware of?
Again thanks for the help.