My problem is solved. The first time I changed to the default design, with the same settings (png and script enabled), nothing happened. Then I tried one more time and now it's working. But the next problem is coming up, the header tab's are shown incorrect in firefox, the troublemakers are identified, there are some wrong width or and border settings for the header tabs.

The following was in the skin.css file.  Removing it not only fixed the issue but also fixed many other image anomolies.

#content img,#contentwide img, #contentwide2 img {
padding:1px;
display:inline;
background:#cccccc;
color:#303030;
border:4px solid #f0f0f0;
}

-Jeff