Sassy,
You may want to look into PhilJ's mods for speedbar and navigation menus:
http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/
As for your header image:
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I know it is possible as I have seen many of your websites that have a full width logo and the 'tabs' of the top menu overlay that image.
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Who says the image is the link?

What if you used a transparent gif as your link source - and don't have it go over the speedbar. You can also try an image map (not as cool, in my opinion). There are more than a few ways to get there. You can also try using a DIV. You can also slice the logo header image... I'm sure you'll find your best solution.
Hope this helps.