Testa:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css">
<meta name="author" content="Frank Ofstad">
<title>test/lek</title>
<style type="text/css">
img {border:0; display: block; text-decoration:none; margin:0; padding:0;}
a {background-color:transparent; display: block; float: left; margin-right: 40px; }
a:hover {background-color:#E1E1BD;}
#outer {border:1px solid black; background-color:#cfcfcf; width:800px; height:34px;
background-image: url(meny.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding:0; margin:0;}
#inner {border:1px solid red; height:20px; width:764px; position:relative; left:35px; top:8px; padding:0; margin:0;}
</style>
</head>
<body style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<a href="1"><img src="test2.gif" height="20" alt="" /></a>
<a href="1"><img src="test.gif" height="20" alt="" /></a>
<a href="1"><img src="test3.gif" height="20" alt="" /></a>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>