thanks for the effort but i solved it just simply by deleting the table i was using and moving the controls to a new table. i know it sounds silly, but none of the many solutions that you gave me worked! anyway, VS is still in beta!
anyway, my problem now is that i need to populate two labels with text in an array i build with C# codebehind. the two labels should be populated when the user hovers over certain images.
i couldn't figure out a way to do it in the onmouseover event, as the array was built in the C# script section.
what should i do?

thanks again
yasser.