wordpress - rollover dropdowns from external file

[hobey19]

i am trying to set up a rollover dropdown menu in my latest wordpress site but am having some problems. i don't want them to be the standard menu items from wordpress (ie pages, categories, archives, etc) but rather specific categories for my site that would then be hardcoded to the pages that i make. it won't be much of a dynamic site, so once its initially set up, this won't be too hard to keep up.

the way i have been going about this is to make the dropdowns and then i am trying to include them in the header.php file. if i browse directly to the dropdown file, it works fine, but i get an include error when i view the actual site. it says it can't find a proper wrapper. i have tried both absolute and relative links, but neither works. i am using wordpress 2.3. any advice would be greatly appreciated.

craig