Well it does work. but what I was trying to do was this. Here are all the other buttons in the bbcode file:
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('email');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/email.png" alt="email" title="email" onclick="insert_text('[email]','[/email]') ;return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('b');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/bold.png" alt="bold" title="bold" onclick="insert_text('[b]','[/b]');return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('i');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/italic.png" alt="italic" title="italic" onclick="insert_text('[i]','[/i]');return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('u');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/underline.png" alt="underline" title="underline" onclick="insert_text('[u]','[/u]');return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('s');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/strikethrough.png" alt="strikethrough" title="strikethrough" onclick="insert_text('[s]','[/s]');return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('h');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/highlight.png" alt="highlight" title="highlight" onclick="insert_text('[h]','[/h]');return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('url');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/url.png" alt="url" title="url" onclick="insert_text('[url=Page URL]Page Name','[/url]');return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('youtube');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/youtube.png" alt="you tube" title="you tube" onclick="insert_text('[youtube]','[/youtube]');return false;" />
<input class="button" type="image" onmouseover="helpline('google');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" src="img/editor/gvideo.png" alt="google video" title="google video" onclick="insert_text('[googlevid]','[/googlevid]');return false;" />
<input type="image" src="img/editor/smilies.png" alt="smileys" title="smileys" class="button" onmouseover="helpline('smileys');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" onClick="return overlay(this, 'smiley', 'rightbottom');return false;" />
<a href="javascript:ShowMenu('bbcode_remote.php','window2',260,350,0,0);"><img style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding-bottom: 1px;" src="img/editor/color.png" alt="colors" title="colors" class="button" onmouseover="helpline('colors');" onmouseout="helpline('default');" /></a>
notice how they all use the<input....etc. except for the one I am using for the color popup. I had to use an image as you suggested, but I originally wanted to use the <input button instead because I have classes set to them already in the stylesheet. Anyway, it works using the image with both FF and IE. FF accepts the input button as I mentioned but not IE. Well, I hope I have not confused you. 
Bingiman
