macromedia flash sitedesign: I would like to create a drop menu where the sub menu drops out of the Flash frame into the content of the web page. Is this possible?

Very possible with layers on your webpage. The area of your base menu will
obviously not overlap over your content, but the area of the overall Flash
object will. From there, the key is making your Flash object transparent where
there aren't any Flash visible elements (instances) in the base frame.

Using Dreamweaver MX, pur your Flash object on your page then click on it.
Down in the Properties inspector, click Parameters. Click on the "+" to add a
parameter. Enter "wmode", tab over to the value column and enter "transparent".

It should create code that looks something like this...

<div id="navigation" style="position:absolute; left:20; top:30; width:840;
height:200px; z-index:100">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=6,0,29,0" width="840" height="250">
<param name="movie" value="../navigationMain.swf">
<param name=quality value=high>
<param name="SCALE" value="exactfit">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<embed src="../navigationMain.swf" width="840" height="250" quality=high
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
ion=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" scale="exactfit"
wmode="transparent"></embed>
</object>
</div>


Here is the website where an example of what you're looking for sits:

http://www.hoosierhoopsmagazine.com