BTW - I originally thought that the class linked to by rel had to be contained within the cluetip link. Guess I found out the hard way that it is not necessary to do that.
I have gotten this to work in firefox - but still cannot get chrome to work on any link but except the first. ***tried one more thing and I think I have found the answer for chrome Chrome does not like the hoverIntent plugin - if I remove the <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js"></ script> in the header - everything works fine So I guess I need to find a different message board! Thank you so much for your time and attention - much appreciated