Yep, that's what I figured and I couldn't figure out why I was getting no changes.  Took another look at little more closely and determined that I uploaded them in the wrong area.  Put them in the right place and bahm!  Instant changes lol..  Sorry for bothering you, but thanks for the quick reply...

Haven't had to bother you in a while, but I was wondering...  The horizontal bars in the Vertex theme...  What decides what color they are?  I am referring to the horizontal bars that contain the forum category names.  I thought that the main_block.png image or the  menu_gfx.png image changed the color of these bars, but I uploaded refreshed images of each and have had no luck changing the color of these bars.  I have cleared my browser cache and my smf cache and still no luck.  Are the colors of these bars possibly decided by hex code in the css files?  If so can I have an idea of where to look.  Thanks

Hey MLM, I found it and got it changed!!!  Man, if you only knew how long I have been trying to resolve that....  Thank you very much and btw, awesome theme!!!

Hi and Thanks MLM,

I am not that familiar with working with code, can you give me an idea of what I need to change...  Will I be changing a hexadecimal color code or do I need to change something for it to identify the menu_gfx.png image? 

I currently have SMF 2.0.2 installed on my site and I am utilizing the Vertex theme.  I have pretty much got everything setup and modified the way I want it, but one thing is simply kicking my butt and I can't figure it out...

The drop down menu from the navigation bar retains the original coloring from the Vertex theme and I can't figure out why it hasn't changed to the new color I have chosen.

From what I can gather from looking at the code, it shows that the background of this drop down menu should be a PNG image named menu_gfx.png

I have copied and modified this image to get the colors that I wanted and saved it as a PNG image before uploading.  Everything that utilizes this image has changed it's color except for the drop down menu in the nav bar.  (If I hadn't added additional navigation to show on the front end of the site it wouldn't have been a problem since I think only the backend has a drop down menu.  But since I added the additional navigation to the front end, I really need to figure out how to get it to change over)

Thanks in advance