[SOLVED] Dashes

I've been making some changes to the menu bars and trying a few different things. The problem is that I have manged to get back some of the dashes I changed to solid. Just the ends of my menu bar show the dashes. I'm not sure (and I've looked) how to fix it. Below is the code that I'm using. It may not be the cleanest, since I'm a newbie. A lot of it I pulled from the forum (thank you) but I may not have it in the right order?

I'm using WPMU 2.91 and ATA 3.4.5
ul.rMenu, ul.rMenu li {
background-color: transparent;
background: url(wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/menugradiant2.gif) repeat-x;
}

/* ================================================== */
/* menu background */
/* ================================================= */

ul.rMenu,
div#menu1 {
height:30px;
border-style:transparent;
border-top-color:#ffffff;
border-top-width:5px;
background-color:transparent;
background:url(/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/menugradiant2.gif) repeat-x !important;
}
div#menu1 ul.rMenu li a:link,
div#menu1 ul.rMenu li a:hover,
div#menu1 ul.rMenu li a:visited,
div#menu1 ul.rMenu li a:active
{
padding: 4px 12px;
}
div#menu1 {
border-top: solid 3px #ffffff;
}

div#menu1 table {
border-bottom: solid 1px #ffffff;
border-top: solid 1px #ffffff;