Foros del web, para los que viven de bits

saludos.

Primero quiero aclarar que soy diseñador mas no programador pero intento apañrmelas como puedo.
Tengo un menu desplegable dentro de un link hecho con un codigo de java que funciona perfectamente, el unico inconveniente es que genera una pequeña linea blanca al lado del link. Esta pequeña linea la genera un blank.gif que se encuentra dentro del codigo. Si lo elimino del codigo desaparece (obviamente) y funciona pero el menu no se despliega con la rapidez que necesito, asi que lo tengo que dejar pero no se realmente para que funciona mas alla de añadir esa molesta linea blanca al lado de mi link y darle rapidez al despliegue del menu. El codigo es el siguiente:

<!--
stm_bm(["menu1f01",840,"","blank.gif",0,"","",0,1,5400,0,1000,1,0,0,"","",0,0,1,2,"defa ult","hand",""],this);
stm_bp("p0",[0,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,100,"",-2,"",-2,100,0,0,"#999999","#FFFFFF","",3,0,0,"#000000"]);
stm_ai("p0i0",[2,"","../images/b4_services.gif","../images/b4_serviceson.gif",49,25,0,"","_self","","","","", 0,0,0,"","",-1,-1,0,0,1,"#FFFFF7",1,"#FFFFF7",1,"","",3,3,0,0,"#FF FFFF","#FFFFF7","#000000","#000000","8pt 'Arial','Verdana'","8pt 'Arial','Verdana'",0,0]);
stm_bp("p1",[0,4,0,2,0,0,0,0,100,"stEffect(\"rect\")",-2,"stEffect(\"rect\")",-2,100,2,3,"#999999","#FFFFFF","",3,1,1,"#CCCCCC"]);
stm_aix("p1i0","p0i0",[0,"Our Services","","",-1,-1,0,"ourservices.htm","_self","","","","",0,0,0,"" ,"",0,0,0,0,1,"#FFFFF7",1,"#FFFFF7",1,"","",3,3,1, 1,"#FFFFFF","#003366","#000000","#000000","8pt Arial","8pt Arial"]);
stm_aix("p1i1","p1i0",[0,"Inspections Services","","",-1,-1,0,"inspections_services.htm"]);
stm_aix("p1i2","p1i0",[0,"QA/QC Services","","",-1,-1,0,"qaqcservices.htm"]);
stm_aix("p1i3","p1i0",[0,"On Site Inspections","","",-1,-1,0,"onsiteinspec.htm"]);
stm_aix("p1i4","p1i3",[0,"Product Surveillance","","",-1,-1,0,"product_surveillance.htm"]);
stm_aix("p1i5","p1i3",[0,"Auditing","","",-1,-1,0,"auditing.htm"]);
stm_aix("p1i6","p1i3",[0,"Training","","",-1,-1,0,"training.htm"]);
stm_aix("p1i7","p1i3",[0,"Engineering & Tech","","",-1,-1,0,"engineering_tech.htm"]);
stm_mc("p1",[1,"#000000",1,1,"",0]);
stm_ep();
stm_ep();
stm_em();
//-->

Espero explicarme correctamente y que alguien pueda ayudarme. Gracias de antemano.