Site can be seen at http://www.evocreative.com/audiot/
My original design did not have the horizontally expanding bars behind the navigation and the footer. I didn't intend it to be that way but the client demanded it. This is the everything auto expands site! : )

So I have it working but my one problem is the grey column on the left. I need it to expand vertically with the column on the right containing the main text. I cannot figure out how to get this to work properly.

I realize the floating grey box over the footer is a real hack job but I couldn't find any other way to do it and keep that box floating centered with the rest of the site. I can't put it into the footer div as far as I can see because it won't stay aligned with the grey column above it.

I'd really appreciate some help on this. My client has backed me into a real corner here.

I have put all the files in a zip here: www.evocreative.com/audiot/audiot.zip