On www.sullens.net/~mthomas/project why isn't the events div on top of the question div? Also why does it appear there is padding on the left side of the menubar?

Why haven't you used the validators? We've asked you to often enough.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.c...s&input=yes
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validat...g=1&lang=en
To help you I would have to correct all the errors first, or I wouldn't know if the problem is because of an error or something else and to be honest I don't want to.