Creating a simple archive menu

Hi there,

I’ve been wasting several hours now on creating a simple dropdown archive using HTML and I am beginning to think I am trying to do something that cannot be done purely with html.

My pathatic attempts can be viewed here: http://www.doubleclick-online.com/publications/news-letter/

I tried putting in wrapping links in the options, trying different values and so on – nothing works.

Couldn’t find a plugin either that does exactly what I want, but I am not about to give up yet.

What am I missing?