After installing, and logged into administrator, select profile, then user preferences

Change admin menu to top, enter password, then update

Open admin, noticing the nav panel is now on top, but links are build vertically down the left side, as well as it having two 'header' bars

To fix, you're going to need to first correct the css

Open


Find:


Replace With:


Now, you need to make it know which one to use for left.
Open

Find:


Replace With:


Next, to fix the double line header background for 'top'..
Open


Find:


Replace with:


This will get rid of the extra black bar (wrong arrangement of div's), as well as correct the alignment of the way it builds.

Updated original post, corrected so that it builds correctly for all placements.

I used your fix except it didnt look right at all. The Left navigation in the admin panel extended right across the page and made it on its own line

You made sure you put in


and changed the left.php to read



right?

This addition to the original post is what was required to fix the left column from my initial post.