Thanks sibyl....
You are not going to believe this ..... I changed the padding back to 45 and width back to 850 ... it is still the same as the screen shot in my original post and !! now !! it looks that way on IE too. At 800 on IE is was fine ..... My screen resolution is 1024 X 768 ...
Oh my .... well its just the admin box ... and know one can see it but me .... so I'm not going to worry about it ..... I like the skin and I really don't want to change it just because of the Admin box ................
Thank you for sending my your link ... I see that everything is fine. Maybe it's my computer ...
I appreciate all your help and time ... but not to worry I can live with it and perhaps is will correct itself ... and I can always ask my son to take a look when he is over.
jeanne