I will say this is the first time I have made a layout's sidebar links this way, but it is not working. As you can see my original intent was to have the sidebar expand so the footer just gets pushed down when more content is added. (Like my content that works great expandible and all) Also the sidebar looks different in Ie than FF. It is really late and I don't understand what I am doing wrong. Please help.

http://www.goldfishgraphicshome.com/Blue/index.php

Well, you got it 1/2 right - you have the UL, but you don't have any <li>s !
Put each of your links in a <li></li>, then you can style the links and li items with CSS.

IE is dropping the right sidebar because of it's broken box model. The width of the right and left sides is too wide to fit inside the container. Make the left column a bit narrower and it should resolve the problem.

Thanks I fixed the problems with the footer, but it still looks different in Ie then ff. I think I tried doing what you said, but I might have done it wrong. If you visit the link again it is still messed up in IE.

Ok, part of the problem is here:

#content {

background-color: #ffffff;
width: 538px;
min-height: 300px;

margin-top: 6.5px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 6.5px;
padding-left: 4px;
float: left;

}

You have a left-floated div with a left margin. One of IE's many bugs is the doubled float margin bug - which means IE is taking that 6px left margin and turning it into 12px.
For this, you need a 'hack', but you need to use conditional comments and a separate CSS file for IE fixes ONLY. The solution is this:

#content: {display: inline;}

Add this to the head of your page:
[quote}
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<link href="iefixes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 6]>
<link href="ie7fixes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <![endif]-->
[/quote]

You also need to remove the padding-left: 4px on #content - also because of IE's broken box model. Put the spacing on the <p> inside #content instead.

You've got lots of problems on your list because the width varies on hover, so you need to find a total width, including the hover styling, and make that the total width of the sidebar (and you have no styling on #sidebar).

All of IE's nasty bugs are outlined here, with solutions:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html

Thanks I will look into that. I didn't realize I was such a bad coder lol.

You're not.. IE 6 is just a BAD browser !
I would, however, lose all that class="linklist" stuff on every <li> item. You can style the whole thing w/o all that in your CSS.