Can someone tell me what I need to change to move the navbar. In the skin I am trying to move the table containg the navbar to the right pane but when I do so I get an error. I realize something else in the code needs to be changed. I am trying to create vertical navigation in the right pane.

Changing the position of the menu is done by changing the skin. You'll want to review the tutorials on skinning to understand this.

There are also menus that install as modules. If you use them, moving the menu is as easy as moving any other module.